{"id":84914,"date":"2026-07-28T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84914"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:09:47","slug":"france-orders-4000-more-evacuated-as-fires-displace-a-third-of-a-million-across-southwest-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/france-orders-4000-more-evacuated-as-fires-displace-a-third-of-a-million-across-southwest-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"France Orders 4,000 More Evacuated As Fires Displace A Third Of A Million Across Southwest Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<em> Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/1f15f60\/2147483647\/strip\/false\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/980x653!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F69%2F7a%2Fe99c7e306cdbd836a1d5f69af91a%2F6e438fa047914b849ee7d3ea9999d2d8\" alt=\"More than 200,000 people flee raging wildfires in France and Spain, some escaping by boat\" width=\"396\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters\u2019 fragile hold on a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-wildfires-france-spain-bordeaux-01d41aae7a3c835b270306288023f8e3\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">vast wildfire<\/a><\/span>\u00a0west of Bordeaux. The blaze in the Gironde region has burned an area four times the size of Paris and forced 220,000 people to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>Across France and Spain, roughly 330,000 people have been driven from homes and vacation sites by fires of exceptional scale. Spain braced for its fourth heat wave of the summer, with several blazes still out of control, including the largest in its recorded history.\u00a0France may never have seen an evacuation on this scale in peacetime. Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said Saturday it was \u201cvery likely\u201d the largest civilian evacuation operation ever carried out in the country outside war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0 Associated Press: French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84915,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84914\/revisions\/84915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}