More than 220,000 evacuated as ‘unprecedented’ wildfires spread near Madrid and Bordeaux

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video More than 220,000 people have been forced to flee the ‘unprecedented’ wildfires raging across France and Spain – including tens of thousands in suburbs around Madrid and Bordeaux. Tourists escaped by car and boat when French authorities ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula, a popular spot on the Atlantic Coast. They described huge ash clouds ‘basically blocking out the sun’, with one resident in a nearby village made to leave their home saying: ‘It’s totally apocalyptic.’ And there does not appear to be any sign of reprieve from the heat, with weather forecasts suggesting temperatures will rise sharply again next week. French firefighters trying to extinguish t