{"id":1492,"date":"2026-07-27T01:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:52:54","slug":"wildfires-threaten-bordeaux-as-france-spain-battle-blazes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires threaten Bordeaux as France, Spain battle blazes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/egyptian-gazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ujj-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wildfires threaten Bordeaux as France, Spain battle blazes\" title=\"Wildfires threaten Bordeaux as France, Spain battle blazes\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Wildfires advanced towards the \u200boutskirts of the historic French city of Bordeaux, at the heart of the country\u2019s winelands, on Sunday as\u00a0France and Spain\u00a0battled blazes that have already forced \u200cthe evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 220,000 people have been evacuated in France, while in Spain more than 75,000 people have been evacuated and a further 30,000 ordered to shelter in place, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In France, fires have ravaged the\u00a0Cap Ferret\u00a0peninsula on the Atlantic coast, a popular tourist destination, and spread through areas surrounding Bordeaux, where firefighters were trying to prevent the flames from reaching the\u00a0regional capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe fire is about 15 kilometres away \u200bfrom the entry points to the main city,\u201d Bordeaux Mayor Thomas Cazenave said on Sunday, while Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on X that the situation remained \u201cdifficult\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the blaze \u200badvanced, police officers went door-to-door overnight in the municipalities of Marcheprime and Cestas, evacuating residents one home at a time, with footage released by \u2060French authorities showing officers knocking on doors in the dark to urge people to leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Wildfires advanced towards the \u200boutskirts of the historic French city of Bordeaux, at the heart of the country\u2019s winelands, on Sunday as\u00a0France and Spain\u00a0battled blazes that have already forced \u200cthe evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. About 220,000 people have been evacuated in France, while in Spain more than 75,000 people have been evacuated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/egyptian-gazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ujj-1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1033,2925,2924,988,1518,129,2923],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-battle","tag-blazes","tag-bordeaux","tag-france","tag-spain","tag-threaten","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}