Firefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation

The wildfires that swept across Spain and France are among the largest the two countries have experienced in recent history. #EuropeNews

Thousands who fled huge wildfires in Spain returned home on Wednesday while in France firefighters braced for worsening conditions in their own battle with raging flames.