{"id":91690,"date":"2026-07-24T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wildfires-spread-in-france-and-spain-forcing-thousands-to-evacuate-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:43:49","slug":"wildfires-spread-in-france-and-spain-forcing-thousands-to-evacuate-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wildfires-spread-in-france-and-spain-forcing-thousands-to-evacuate-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires spread in France and Spain, forcing thousands to evacuate | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French authorities have ordered the evacuation of the entirety of the Cap Ferret peninsula on the south-west coast, with hundreds <!--more--> of people escaping the area by boat.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from the tourism destination west of Bordeaux, as firefighters continue to battle what has described as an &#8220;XXL fire&#8221; in the Gironde region.<\/p>\n<p>The fires, which began on Tuesday, have burned for days, with officials saying 10,000 hectares (almost 25,000 acres) had been consumed by the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government in Spain has declared a national emergency as wildfires burn out of control in several areas close to the capital Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#France #Spain #Wildfires #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French authorities have ordered the evacuation of the entirety of the Cap Ferret peninsula on the south-west coast, with hundreds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}