Fire crisis eases in western Europe but worsens in Greece as winds fan flames

Europe’s wildfire emergency eased across much of western Europe on Saturday, with major fires in France and Spain no longer advancing and Portugal’s main blaze under control.However, the crisis worsened in Greece, where gale-force winds drove flames through a seaside resort and triggered fresh evacuations.In south-western France, firefighters held a vast wildfire within its perimeter, with about 198,000 people now allowed home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation.A second French fire that raced across four square miles in six hours on Friday — “faster than a horse at full gallop”, according to the prefecture — also stopped expanding overnight. But it remained active on Saturday and 2,500 people were still unable to return home.Flames burn through a forest dur