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Wildfires rage in southern France, 3,000 people evacuated

Wildfires rage in southern France, 3,000 people evacuated
France 24 Thursday 02 July 2026, 19:29 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Wildfires rage in southern France, 3,000 people evacuated Environment Issued on: Share Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated in southwestern France, as Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu sounded the alarm over an early outbreak of wildfires in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave. FRANCE 24's Juliette Brown reports.
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