Europe wildfires: ‘Difficult hours lie ahead’ in battle to contain fires, says Pedro Sanchez as more than 300,000 flee homes in France and Spain

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warns that difficult hours remain in the fight to contain wildfires sweeping France and Spain, according to The Guardian. More than three hundred thousand people have fled their homes in what has become one of the largest peacetime civilian evacuation operations France has ever conducted. Spain's environment ministry reports thirty-two major forest fires so far this year, compared with just seven over the same period last year. The Guardian notes Europe is heating at roughly twice the global average rate, a factor scientists link to the increasing frequency and severity of such events.

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