France deploying massive cargo aircraft to dump flame retardants on wildfire, after nearly 200,000 evacuations
- On Saturday, authorities evacuated suburbs surrounding Bordeaux as wildfires threatened the city, part of a crisis displacing more than 200,000 people across France and Spain.
- Record-Breaking heatwaves have turned European landscapes into tinderboxes, with experts at World Weather Attribution calling 'heat domes' a driver making extreme fire seasons 'virtually impossible' without human-driven climate change.
- More than 141,000 people fled homes in Gironde and surrounding French departments, while 60,000 evacuated in central Spain; at least 27 French firefighters have been injured battling the flames.
- French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez deployed hundreds of soldiers and an A400M aircraft to combat the Gironde blaze, while Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited a command post addressing the unprecedented destruction.
- Although Saturday's weather offered 'a window of opportunity' for crews to contain the fires, authorities warned the situation remains 'long and very difficult,' with European nations deploying aircraft to bolster efforts.
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Bordeaux Suburbs at Risk as 200,000 Flee Fires in France, Spain
More than 250,000 people fled towns and villages in Spain and France as uncontrolled wildfires moved ever closer to Madrid and Bordeaux, metropolitan areas that are home to more than 8 million people combined.
The forest fires in France and Spain have triggered a wave of evacuations: hundreds of thousands of people have had to leave their homes. Holidaymakers are also affected. France is mobilising soldiers.
More than 200,000 people have been forced to leave their homes due to the fires.
France Tries to Keep Wildfires From Bordeaux
France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday and slashed the final stage of Tour de France to redeploy security personnel to the blazes that have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. A giant...
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