MARSEILLE, Aug 19: Two wildfires in southern France forced several thousand people to flee before the blazes were brought under control, officials said on Monday.
Some 3,000 holiday makers were evacuated from a camping site to a municipal building in the coastal town of Canet-en-Roussillon, near the city of Perpignan, in the face of a fire fanned by strong winds, rescue services said in a statement.
The fire, which destroyed one mobile home and partially damaged five others, was brought under control, they said.
Further up the Mediterranean coast, a fire that forced dozens from their homes in the coastal town of Frontignan, near the city of Montpellier, was also quelled.
"The fire has been under control for two and a half hours now," a spokesman for the regional firefighters, Jerome Bonnafoux, told AFP shortly after sunrise. —AFP
