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‘We’ve lost everything’: Tourists evacuated in France’s Gironde as wildfires rage As a heatwave scorches Western Europe, some 38,500 people have been evacuated away from forest fires raging in France’s southwestern Gironde region. No deaths have been reported as of Wednesday, but holidaymakers at campsites near the Dune du Pilat – Europe’s tallest sand dune, perched amid a forest on the Atlantic Coast – had their belongings go up in smoke. FRANCE 24 reports.