Philadelphia Inquirer
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Europe’s wildfire crisis fractures as Greece evacuates and France guards megafire scar
LACANAU, France (AP) — Europe's wildfire crisis fractured along starkly different fronts Sunday: gale-force winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris against renewed spread, and Spain's major fires finally stopped advancing.The center of immediate danger was Greece. Gale-force winds drove flames deeper into western Attica, the administrative region that includes the capital, threatening villages and an industrial district outside the city of Megara as violent gusts prevented firefighting aircraft from collecting water from the sea.But the easing emergency farther west offered little sense of an ending. France's largest wildfire remained contained after 224,000 people were forced to flee in
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