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It's around 9 p.m. on August the 16th, 2021. In the south of France, high up in the densely forested hills that overlook the medieval Provenc Sal town of Lagarde Fré. A stiff, cool evening wind blows rapidly across the hillside, and yet it's swelteringly unnaturally hot. Inside a holiday home perched at the top of the slope

Fiona Drummond has just put her three young children to bed. the All evening the kids have been asking their mom if something is wrong.

She's done her best to reassure them everything's fine.

But it's difficult when she doesn't really believe that herself.

Fiano walks back down the corridor towards the living room.

As she approaches, she can hear the hushed whispers of the other adults.

There is an intense debate about what they should do.

It's now impossible to ignore the acrid aroma wafting through the house,

scorched oak and burning pine.

I could smell smoke by now,

but according to the phone call

that my brother-in-law had made down to the town,

it was just going to be a smell from far away.

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