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Fleeing a wall of flames: Tourists describe France wildfires escape

Families visiting France from the UK and elsewhere have told the BBC how their holidays have become evacuation missions.

Tourists have recounted their harrowing escapes from raging wildfires in France, with many arriving by boat in Arcachon on Friday after being evacuated from the Cap Ferret peninsula in the country's south-

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