Argentina fires: Hundreds flee wall of flames tearing towards resort city ‘started by camper making coffee’

A firefighter is silhouetted by the flames of a forest fire on the outskirts of Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina. Photo: Nicolas Aguilera

Alex Ross
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Ferocious wildfires surrounded a resort city in Argentina overnight, forcing the mass evacuation of hundreds of families during an intense heatwave.

Alarming footage shows a wall of flames tearing towards the resort city of Villa Carlos Paz, with a population of 56,000, in the Punilla Valley of the central Cordoba province as temperatures reached 35C.