A picture taken on Aug 5, 2020, shows a Canadair bomber plane of the French Securite Civile droping water, a day after a wild fires broke out in La Couronne, near Marseille. — AFPAlmost 3,000 people were evacuated Tuesday night, some by boat, from homes and camping sites near Marseille in southern France as forest fires tore through some 1,000 hectares of vegetation.
The occupants of an elderly people’s home and other locals, as well as tourists from France and abroad, had to be evacuated as flames devoured the Blue Coast -- an pine tree-lined area between Marseille and Martigues on the Mediterranean shore. “It was panic, we had to go down to the beach and we could see the flames coming closer,“ said Maryse Escuder, 83, who was on vacation with her family and great-grandchildren at the La Source campsite.“I first smelled the smoke and then saw the flames,“ said Marc Lorenz, a German on holiday with his wife and three children, who also slept on camp beds in the hastily-erected emergency reception centre.
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