British holidaymakers saw 'several fires in the distance' whilst evacuating

Headmaster David Morton, 53, from Gloucester in southwest England, had been on holiday with his wife and sons when they received an emergency alert via text overnight on Thursday instructing them to evacuate. The family were staying in a house in Petit Piquey, in Cap Ferret, and were woken up at 03:00 local time (02:00 BST) by an alert on the property's landline. "Everyone was driving with their lights on, driving very slowly – there was lots of fire service people, ambulances, police on th