'This will be the fire of the century' mayor of town near Bordeaux says

Jerome Steffe, the mayor of Cestas, a town south of Bordeaux, says this "will be the fire of the century". Speaking to BBC News, he describes how 17,000 residents were evacuated from his town during the night when the fire swelled two days ago. So far, he says, the region has seen 42,000 hectares of land burned, and 240 houses destroyed. "In my city the situation is really catastrophic," he adds. And although the fire is no longer moving as quickly, he says his teams have &qu