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NAVAS REY: Spanish residents forced to flee some of the worst wildfires in living memory began returning to their homes on Tuesday, after the country lifted evacuation orders for more than a dozen areas.
But in France, thousands more people were ordered to flee, as fears grew that another searing heatwave would prevent containment of fires that have ripped through the southwest.
Swathes of tinder-dry forests, parched land and property have been destroyed west of the Spanish capital, Madrid, and in France’s Gironde and Landes regions, forcing tens of thousands to head to safety.
Spain’s interior ministry announced the end of evacuation orders for 13 municipalities on Tuesday afternoon, in rare good news in the battle to stop the inferno spreading.
