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After fleeing France’s worst wildfire in decades, residents of Le Porge, a village west of Bordeaux, returned home 13 days later. They found a town in ruins. Mario Freitas on the site of his ruined house in Le Porge, France, on Monday. As Mario Freitas, a carpenter, walked through what was left of the wooden house that he built himself a decade ago, his brother-in-law pulled scraps of carbon fiber from a pile of charred rubble. “That’s my carbon bike; it was a present,” said Mr. The remains of his bicycle were among the few recognizable pieces of debris that were left in his property on Monday after an inferno swept through his village last month, reducing even concrete to dust.
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His village, Le Porge, was in the path of France’s biggest fire in decades, which tore through more than 100,000 acres of forest and spurred the largest peacetime evacuation in the country’s history.
