Latest / INSIGHT TODAY / Scary video shows European fires that have displaced over 250,000 in France, Spain and beyond
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- 4:38Speaker 3: Wildfires continue to burn across Europe and Greece. Firefighters are
- 4:43Speaker 3: battling a deadly blaze on the island of Crete, forcing
- 4:46Speaker 3: tourists and residents to evacuate. In the UK, a major
- 4:50Speaker 3: incident has been declared as Wildfires in eastern England have
- 4:54Speaker 3: prompted hundreds of people to evacuate amidst heat and drought
- 4:58Speaker 3: warnings in the country. In Spain and France, authorities are
- 5:02Speaker 3: still working to extinguish wildfires. CBS News foreign correspondent Remi
- 5:06Speaker 3: in Esensio has more.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 5:10Speaker 4: We are in Bordeaux, world famous wine region, and just
- 5:13Speaker 4: hours ago in evacuation order was lifted, and that means
- 5:16Speaker 4: tens of thousands of people can now go back home.
- 5:19Speaker 4: But while France's biggest wildfire is still burning just about
- 5:22Speaker 4: ten miles west of US here, it is not out.
- 5:27Speaker 4: Firefighters attacked seven new blazes that sprang up Wednesday this morning.
- 5:32Speaker 4: Three are still raging in area four times larger than Paris,
- 5:36Speaker 4: now scorched. This is the most devastated, most burned town
- 5:41Speaker 4: in this catastrophe. This is the commune of Laporge. An
- 5:45Speaker 4: inferno ripped through this community of about thirty five hundred
- 5:48Speaker 4: people with high winds and flames. Now most of the
- 5:52Speaker 4: homes have been demolished, reduced to rubble, and most of
- 5:56Speaker 4: its people are gone and higher. Still, light images show
- 6:00Speaker 4: the first fires hitting the town, billowing and smothering it
- 6:04Speaker 4: a few days later. This devastation what every other town
- 6:08Speaker 4: nearby is working to avoid. Like Lacanow just a few
- 6:13Speaker 4: miles down the road, locals are stepping up to spray
- 6:17Speaker 4: every little fire while firefighters battle the biggest blazes. Nil
- 6:21Speaker 4: Sevil is usually a surfing structure and the ground is
- 6:24Speaker 4: smoking too. Yeah, the ground is smoking because go everywhere
- 6:28Speaker 4: is it underground too?
- 6:29Speaker 2: Underground?
- 6:29Speaker 1: Sometimes like one meter underground.
- 6:33Speaker 4: Fires three feet below us. They've all been here since
- 6:36Speaker 4: last week, not giving up. When do you sleep?
- 6:39Speaker 2: We took some shelter pose. Yeah, like wells follows.
- 6:44Speaker 4: You must be super tired.
- 6:45Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's okay.
- 6:47Speaker 4: It's for old the village, all the coming to all
- 6:50Speaker 4: those guys. I've seen them going up, and it's it's
- 6:55Speaker 4: like a boz od, you know. It's cool, yes, And
- 6:58Speaker 4: it is unity, it is fraternity and resilience. And there
- 7:01Speaker 4: is some good news because weather conditions are getting better.
- 7:05Speaker 4: It's already a little bit cooler today and we even
- 7:07Speaker 4: got rained on a bit earlier this morning. But there
- 7:10Speaker 4: are still about eighty thousand people displaced across all of
- 7:14Speaker 4: southern France, and we've just learned something new that George
- 7:17Speaker 4: and Amal Clooney are on that list. They announced that
- 7:20Speaker 4: this morning that they have fled their home to back to.
- 7:22Speaker 3: You, remin Esensio.
- 7:24Speaker 2: Thanks