More than 325,000 flee wildfires in France and Spain
Firefighters in France and Spain battled major wildfires on July 27 as forecasts of another heatwave in southwestern France threatened to hamper efforts to contain the blazes.
More than 325,000 people have been evacuated across the two countries, where fires have swept through southwestern France and areas of central and eastern Spain.
The Gironde blaze, one of France’s largest since World War II, generated a pyrocumulonimbus cloud capable of creating its own winds and lightning, the National Firefighters Federation of France said.
“It’s a David-versus-Goliath scenario. At some point, we’ll find a weak spot and strike there,” federation spokesman Eric Brocardi said.
