{"id":286208,"date":"2026-07-24T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=286208"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:32:51","slug":"france-faces-very-tense-wildfire-situation-as-spain-declares-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/286208\/","title":{"rendered":"France faces \u2018very tense\u2019 wildfire situation as Spain declares emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities in France have ordered the evacuation of the entirety of the Cap Ferret peninsula (Lège-Cap Ferret) in the southwest of France, with hundreds of people escaping the area by boat, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The tourism hotspot is being evacuated as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire that has raged in the Gironde region for days.<\/p>\n

The fire, which began on Tuesday in Saumos, continued its progression overnight with 8,700 hectares consumed by the flames.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday night the wildfire situation in the country is “very tense” – referencing the Gironde region in particular.<\/p>\n

Macron said he requested help from the European Union, adding the country will soon be supported by aircraft from Croatia, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the government in Spain has declared a national emergency as wildfires burn out of control in several areas close to the capital Madrid.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities in France have ordered the evacuation of the entirety of the Cap Ferret peninsula (Lège-Cap Ferret) in the southwest of France, with hundreds of people escaping the area by boat, the BBC writes. The tourism hotspot is being evacuated as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire that has raged in the Gironde region for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":286150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286210,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286208\/revisions\/286210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}