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• ‘Most severe’ since World War II: French President Emmanuel Macron said his country was battling the “most severe” situation since World War II. As of early Tuesday, military engineers were working alongside firefighters to battle the blazes in the hard-hit Gironde region.
• Mass evacuations in Spain: Authorities say more than 63,000 people have been evacuated from their homes near Madrid. In eastern Spain, ordnance left over from the country’s civil war almost a century ago is a further threat to firefighters there.
• No weather respite: France’s weather office issued heatwave alerts for the hard-hit Gironde and Landes regions on Tuesday, forecasting hot, dry weather and no rain. Track the wildfires here.
