With the wildfire emergency out of the way Thursday and 84,000 out of over 220,000 people allowed to regain in their homes in nine communities in southwest France, but not Le Porge, resident volunteers there were starting to absorb the extent of their town’s destruction and the sense that they’d been left to their own devices.

Video. Residents in Le Porge, in southwestern France's Gironde region, are working to prevent a devastating wildfire from reigniting by spraying water on smouldering forest…

Images from Le Grand-Crohot campsite in Lege-Cap-Ferret in south west France showed the charred remains of cars, vans, push bikes and buildings, as locals say there were scenes…