European wildfires threatening Madrid and French resorts have become impossible to control in some areas as hundreds of thousands, including British holidaymakers, are forced from their homes.
Large forest fires have become ‘out of control’ in southwestern France and central Spain today, sparking an evacuation of an estimated 200,000 people from their homes.
The fire in Madrid is said to put at risk a NASA and ESA communications complex, one of three comprising a network studying deep space.
About 141,000 people fled their homes in Gironde and Landes in France, while 60,000 were forced to evacuate their houses in Spain, the countries’ respective Interior
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