AdvertisementUpdated WorldEuropeBushfires ‘Doing their best to survive’: Inside Bordeaux’s wildfire refugee centre David Crowe July 29, 2026 — 11:33am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. “The residents of Le Haillan, Eysines and Mérignac can return home,” said the organiser at the front of the hall. Residents evacuated from the wildfires in an emergency shelter set up at the Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux on Tuesday. AdvertisementThree volunteers at the emergency accommodation centre for evacuees in Bordeaux. Two firefighters died last week in the effort to douse a blaze near Bordeaux’s airport, just near the evacuated neighbourhood of Mérignac.