00:02Wildfires swept across southwest France on Saturday, forcing tens of thousands of residents
00:08to evacuate as authorities ordered the evacuation of the entire Cap Ferret Peninsula.
00:14People fled the commune of Saint-Jean-des-Lac as fast-moving flames threatened homes across
00:19the region.
00:20Residents described scenes of fear and uncertainty, with many unsure whether their homes would
00:26survive the blaze.
00:27You feel how, all this story?
00:30It's necessary to do with it.
00:34It's imaginable, it's incredible, but it's like that.
00:38I think that our friend who is at the government could do things before, I think.
00:45I'm going to wait because I'm not from Saint-Jean-des-Lac, I'm from Dulac.
00:50It's part of Saint-Jean-des-Lac.
00:51Here, we received an alert at 19h or 19h30.
00:56And I waited for a little bit because it's the precipitation as you see here.
01:00They all precipitate all.
01:01And in the meantime, after an hour, it's the gendarmerie who came to see me to leave.
01:05And here I'm going to do the same because it's a chaos.
01:07People don't care.
01:09They're running anywhere.
01:11They're running anywhere.
01:12And to go in precipitation, we'll find ourselves in the bushes for nothing.
01:15And I'm afraid.
01:17I'm afraid.
01:17I'm afraid.
01:18I'm afraid.
01:18Yesterday, when I left my house, I was afraid of not finding it.
01:22Even though the fire is not yet there.
01:24But there's this little thing.
01:26The memories are all.
01:28We lose everything.
01:28Meanwhile, in neighboring Spain, massive wildfires merged outside Madrid, prompting authorities
01:35to declare a national emergency.
01:37Wildfires have already scorched more land across Europe this year than the annual average
01:43over the past two decades, as the continent endures its third heatwave of the year.
01:48Scientists say human-induced climate change is making heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires
01:54more frequent and more intense.
01:55I don't know if I can still be concerned, but I'm afraid of other people that are worth
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