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France orders 4,000 more evacuated as fires displace a third of a million across southwest Europe
Across France and Spain, roughly 330,000 people have been driven from homes and vacation sites by fires of exceptional scale.
Fire crews in southwest France are battling a massive blaze four times the size of Paris, while two firefighters were killed fighting a wind-driven blaze on the Greek island of Crete.
Thousands have been evacuated from homes and resorts in France and Spain as wildfires continue to tear through the southwest of Europe.
The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.
Firefighters battled flames in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and Turkey and were tamping down smoldering forests in southwest France where 224,000 people had been forced to flee.
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