“Everything up to Bordeaux is on fire. There’s no way to leave this part of southwest France. So for now, even if I would be evacuated, there’s really nowhere to be evacuated to.”
Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee, with flames now nine kilometres from Bordeaux, American mother Rebecca Papin describes the reality of being stranded with her two children in a “forest” zone surrounded by fire.
Rebecca Papin and Eleonore Caroit were speaking to Rosie Wright and Nick Wallis on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every day, from 6-10am.
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