Gironde's Inferno: A Journalist's Account from the Ground As I stepped off the train in Bordeaux, the acrid smell of smoke and ash hung heavy in the air.
It was a familiar scent, one that I'd grown accustomed to covering wildfires in Australia, California, and Greece. But nothing could have prepared me for the scale and ferocity of the Gironde fires.
France 24's Luke Shrago had been on the ground since the start, and his firsthand account is a testament to the human cost of these devastating blazes.