Thousands evacuated in France and Spain as wildfires continue to rage

FRENCH authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate today from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters’ hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux. The blaze in the Gironde region has burned an area four times the size of Paris and forced 220,000 people to evacuate.  Across France and Spain, roughly 330,000 people have been driven from homes and vacation sites by fires of exceptional scale.