She grabbed her 9-year-old daughter, their rabbit and their dog but didn’t think to pack underwear. But with the flames spreading closer to her mother’s house west of Bordeaux, the daughter began preparing to flee again. “She packed a suitcase with a lot of things, telling me, ‘Mum, you need to pack your suitcase because we’re going to have to be evacuated,’” Bonichot said. Just hours later, at 2:47 am, she got the evacuation order for their town, Saint-Jean-d’Illac, on her phone. But one of the neighbors had a cat, and with the smell of the rabbit it became very complicated.