About 1,200 people evacuated from coastal wildfire in northern France

About 1,200 people were evacuated

from a campsite due to two wildfires near the beach in the north

of France, local officials said on Wednesday.



The prefecture for the administrative department of

Pas-de-Calais, in the country's north and bordering the Strait

of Dover, said one of the wildfires was under control, but

conditions were "unfavourable" for the other one. Access was

difficult and the fire was spreading unimpeded toward the south.



Affected campers were being moved to a shelter, the

statement said.



France and the wider European continent, the world's

fastest-warming, have been battling an unusually active wildfire

season, as a relatively wet winter fuelled growth in vegetation

that then dried out during rolling heatwaves.