NAVAS DEL REY, July 29 — Returning to her home at the heart of the wildfires near Madrid, Maria Paz Bolanos’s voice trembled as she declared it undamaged, by some...

Elvira Menéndez knows how lucky she is that her house is not a charred ruin like so many others in Spain and France, devastated by raging wildfires.

2 major fires near Madrid merged into a single on Friday. It later combined with another that was already burning in Ávila, north of the capital. | World News