Overview
- The Clooney family left their Brignoles estate on Thursday, July 30, 2026, and evacuated with their nine-year-old twins after a nearby fire threatened the Var department.
- George Clooney sent a letter to Brignoles mayor Didier Brémond saying the couple do not know if their house will survive and promising that they will help the town recover if it is damaged.
- Local authorities reported that the Var fire around Brignoles burned roughly 100 hectares and required about 250 firefighters, scores of vehicles and multiple water-bombing aircraft to fight it.
- Fires across France have forced large-scale displacements — including roughly 224,000 people in Gironde and about 3,000 in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur — and officials said some major blazes showed partial stabilization while others remained active.
- Scientists and officials linked the outbreak to an extreme heat wave, drought and strong winds, and the scale of the blazes raises risks of long recovery needs, property loss and pressure on local services as communities begin rebuilding.