Mark Landler
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314 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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Some of them are playing cards.
A lot of them are sitting in groups.
So I sort of walked around.
I brought a news assistant from our bureau, and the two of us began talking to people.
The first two people that we encountered were a younger woman and an older woman, both of whom had fled their apartments in the middle of the night.
They'd been rousted almost literally out of bed by the police, knocking on their doors, telling them they had to leave now.
They knew the previous evening that things were getting dire,
One of them told me that she stood on the balcony of her fifth-floor apartment and sort of could see the wall of flames only a mile or so from her apartment.
And so these women were really truly worried about what they would find when they got a chance to go home, whether their apartments would still be intact.
And so these were the kinds of stories, and they were reflected—
Really, over and over and over again, as you looked out across this cavernous room, there were a lot of people who were feeling really in a very exposed and dangerous position, filled with fear about the future, about the state of their houses, the things they left behind, and how difficult it would be to pick up the pieces.
Just to give you a couple sort of headline numbers, we're talking about over 100,000 acres of property.
Many, many, many villages have been damaged.
One village in particular, La Porche, which is west of Bordeaux,
has suffered catastrophic damage with some 150 homes utterly destroyed and something in excess of 240,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes.
That makes this the largest peacetime evacuation in modern French history.
And so we're really, you know, talking about a magnitude of natural disaster that...
may be familiar to people in other countries, but in France, it is really, truly something that no one has ever seen.
Well, France has invested a fair amount in firefighting capacity, in part drawing on the experience of some of the bad fire seasons that they've had in the past.
So, yes, they do.
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