British tourist recalls 'ash falling from the sky' amid French fire

Rozina SiniBBC Your Voice The beach at Lacanau was 'completely destroyed' by ash from the nearby wildfire James Hillier was visiting his son in the seaside commune of Lacanau, in the Gironde department, on Friday, when "the whole town got consumed by smoke". He and his wife headed to the beach, which is a popular surfing spot, and found that it had been "completely destroyed". "There was ash falling from the sky and I noticed a big lump of it landed on my hand," he