France and Spain battle the worst wildfires in their histories as heatwave fuels crisis
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BORDEAUX, July 27 — Firefighters faced another day battling massive blazes scorching forests across France and Spain Monday, with a forecast of another heatwave in southwest...
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More than 325,000 people have fled their homes as some of the worst forest fires in either country’s history rage across southwest France and central Spain near Madrid.
France’s fire, one of the nation’s biggest since World War II, has caused an unprecedented “pyrocumulonimbus” – a giant fire cloud that creates its own winds and packs lightning that causes more blazes, said the National Firefighters Federation of France (FNSPF).
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- Jul 27, 2026
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