The wildly unpredictable and self-feeding firestorm has burned through an area four times the size of Paris and forced 220,000 people to flee their homes.

President Emmanuel Macron has requested assistance from aircraft and helicopters through the European Union's civil protection mechanism as wildfires intensify across France,…

A quarter of a million people have fled their homes mostly in France and Spain from fires raging in southern Europe, as soldiers join battles to halt the blazes.

Army deploys 1,500 personnel and surveillance drones to help fight blazes