More than 3,000 holidaymakers were on Tuesday picking up the pieces of disrupted summer breaks after they were evacuated from campsites following fires near the French border with Spain. The fire broke out on Monday afternoon between Saint-André and Argelès-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales region in south-western France.The blaze was brought under control during the early hours of Tuesday morning, France Bleu Roussillon reported.Four campsites and two housing estates were evacuated to makeshif
Hundreds of firefighters have tackled the blaze which broke out between Saint-André, near the Spanish border, and the seaside resort of Argeles-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast.