Amid rows of camp beds and stacks of food supplies at a makeshift shelter in Bordeaux, thousands of tourists and locals try to regain their composure after fleeing wildfires sweeping through southwest France.
Many are anxious about the fate of their homes, while others have had their holidays abruptly cut short.
Nuala Kelly, a 75-year-old Irish tourist, said she had never seen anything like this.
"Never, never, never, never, never, and I've travelled all over the world and been in all sorts of situations," she told AFP at Bordeaux's vast exhibition centre now housing thousands of people displaced by the wildfires.
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