Mark Landler
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314 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
Mark Landler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More than 360,000 residents in Taurus have now been evacuated.
So I arrived in Bordeaux last Sunday at around 3.30, 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
And that was a particularly bad day because the wind was blowing from the west to the east.
So all the smoke from the fire was blowing directly over the city from a distance of about 20 miles away.
So as the train pulled into this very beautiful old soaring station,
There was a really apocalyptic scene, a sort of a deep yellow-orange cloud that was sort of hanging over the entire city.
You couldn't see the sun.
It really had blotted out the sun.
The spires of the cathedral, which are a real landmark in Bordeaux, you could sort of barely pick them out in the distance.
And then when the train pulled in and we all stepped off and walked down the platform, you instantly smelled this kind of deep, smoky smell in the air.
And then as you walk out of the station and into the street, you actually began to see before your eyes these tiny pieces of ash floating in the air.
And you instantly felt it in your throat.
You felt it on your eyes.
It was like walking into a sort of a very dystopian kind of landscape.
And it sort of very instantly brought home that this is an atmosphere in a city that was in a lot of distress.
There were a lot of people in the station making plans to leave the city.
My goal was to get as quickly as I could to one of these huge evacuation centers that had been set up around the city to accommodate people who'd been forced to flee their houses.
So...
That was my first sort of destination as I began reporting the story.
First of all, just to set the scene, you walk into this enormous airplane hangar-sized room where there are hundreds and hundreds of cots in rows, and people either lying on the cots, sitting on the cots.
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