Live: Macron to hold crisis meeting as French wildfires force more than 250,000 to evacuate

More than two hundred fifty thousand people have fled their homes as wildfires burn out of control across southern France, France 24 reports. President Emmanuel Macron will hold a crisis cabinet meeting on Monday to address the spreading blazes. Across the border, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is heading to Valencia, where firefighters are fighting a separate fire that has also driven thousands from their homes.

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