France sends boats to evacuate tourist hotspot Cap Ferret as wildfires rage
French authorities ordered the complete evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula on Friday, launching boats to help rescue people from the popular tourist destination as wildfires tear across western Europe.
Some 53 homes and one campsite have been burnt in the blaze, which 1,000 firefighters are battling, Brocas said Another wildfire is also burning in the area near Biscarrosse, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Cap Ferret, which has already forced 23,000 people to be evacuated.
But this year the continent has seen far more land burnt than the annual average for the same period, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).
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