Tens of thousands of French wildfire evacuees allowed to return home

French authorities gave the go-ahead Thursday for eighty-four thousand wildfire evacuees to return to their homes in southwest France. France 24 reports it's the strongest sign yet that firefighters are turning a corner against a blaze that has burned an area four times the size of Paris.

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