Spain, France and Wildfires
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George and Amal Clooney are among thousands of residents in southwest France still displaced by a massive wildfire, but crews are gaining control.
Europe is sweltering under an exceptionally hot and arid summer, creating tinderbox conditions for fires that have flared from the Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean.
France, Spain and Greece battled major wildfires on Thursday, with Spain bringing one blaze under control but facing new threats as intense heat,
The fires are behaving in ways not seen before in France, including the formation of the country's first-ever reported pyrocumulonimbus.
French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.
PARIS (AP) — George Clooney and his family have been forced to evacuate their home in southeastern France because of a wildfire burning nearby, his agent said Thursday.
Firefighters in Spain and France are racing to control wildfires with both countries set to experience heat waves. Follow for live updates.
A woman and her family are now back home after being trapped in France amid wildfires. What started as a family vacation for Rebecca Papin and her two children turned into anything but that. They were at their vacation house in Biscarrosse when they noticed smoke in the sky.