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Today, what next after the biggest peacetime evacuation in French history?
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There was a very strong smell of burning in the air, the sunlight.
That was coming through this cloud of smoke,
was giving everything a very orange, golden tint, making everything look very dystopian.
Over the past six days, huge wildfires have raged through southern France.
President Emmanuel Macron has called it perhaps the most severe crisis his country has faced since World War II.
The worst affected region is around Bordeaux in the southwest.
That's where William, a student, described the skies above Arcachon,
a coastal resort famous for its enormous sand dunes.
There were even ashes falling from the sky.
And in the evening, after dark, from the seafront, you could see the flames on the other side of the Arcochon Bay.