Dutch Owner Evacuated Campsite in the South of France: 'This Is Dramatic'

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"It is quite dramatic," sighs Gijs van Nifterik (67) in the house in the southern French village of Fourques where he fled in a panic late last night. A few hours earlier, around six o'clock, he received a call from the mayor: he had to evacuate his small-scale nature campsite Al Comú immediately. The forest fires had come too close. Van Nifterik had no choice but to tell his guests that everything had to be packed up. It did not come as a total…