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Massive wildfires forced over 250,000 evacuations across southern France and Spain as firefighting resources strain. The EU deployed aircraft to help battle the flames amid record heat.
Massive wildfires forced over 250,000 evacuations across southern France and Spain. The fires spread fast enough that the EU deployed aircraft to help battle them, and heat records were being broken as the fires burned. The scale of evacuation — a quarter million people — indicates the fires were threatening populated areas, not just wilderness.
Wildfires at this scale displace entire towns and stretch resources beyond what individual countries can handle. When Europe's rich, developed nations need EU air support to fight fires, it signals that climate-driven extremes are now regular enough to overwhelm regional firefighting capacity. The evacuations will create immediate housing and resource needs that last weeks or months after the fires are out.
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