Europe burns: a visual guide to the wildfires

Wildfires are tearing through France and Spain with no sign of letting up, The Guardian reports, forcing 330,000 people from their homes and killing an unspecified number of residents. Toxic smoke has spread across the region as a fourth heatwave of the European summer takes hold. France has already burned more land this year than in its previous worst full year on record, and August, typically its hottest month, hasn't even arrived yet.

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