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CAP FERRET (France): Europe’s wildfire crisis forced more than 100,000 people to flee for safety on Friday, as holidaymakers boarded boats to escape fires on one French peninsula and Spanish officials ordered mass evacuations in towns near Madrid.
Both Spain and France called for European Union help as flames whipped up by strong winds and boosted by drought raced through tinder-dry forests.
France ordered the evacuation of almost 60,000 people on the upscale Cap Ferret peninsula, south of Bordeaux.
As 27 boats brought hundreds of people away from the fires, those with cars took the only usable road off the peninsula, known for its millionaire residences.
