For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. With moisture moving in from the Atlantic Ocean coast, national weather service Meteo France forecast light rain in the town of Lège-Cap-Ferret, on a peninsula that's been a leading edge of the devastated region. Local officials reported a “rather calm" night, with a fire that has not grown beyond the 42,000 hectares (about 162 sq. The fires in the Bordeaux wine-growing, forested and tourism-heavy region are among the blazes that have swept across pockets of southern Europe in recent weeks, including Spain and Greece. At the peak of the evacuations, a third of a million people were driven from homes and vacation sites in France and Spain.