'We've never known a summer like this,' says the mayor of one town threatened by wildfires.
Christian Fostitschenko sat near his camp bed at an evacuation centre in Salles, southwestern France.This area, south of Bordeaux, was hit by a massive fire in July, andThis is the second time this summer that Christian has been evacuated from his home - and he doesn't know when he can go back."I'm fed up of it, mentally and physically," he said. "It's time to go home, but it just doesn't stop.
Stephanie Martin, from the French fire brigade told me that the fires this summer are "exceptional", with successive heatwaves, wind and no rain creating the perfect conditions for big fires. On Friday night the flames reached the edge of the village of Louchats, threatening several houses. The next morning we met the mayor, Philippe Carreyre, as he supervised a truck spraying water into the woods."We've never known a summer like this," he said. "It's a catastrophe, an environmental catastrophe and also a climate catastrophe. The sun and wind need to be replaced by clouds and rain as quickly as possible.
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