Europe’s wildfire crisis eases in west as danger shifts east to Greece

Firefighters held a vast wildfire inside its perimeter in southwestern France on Saturday, allowing about 198,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation, even as renewed fires forced thousands from their homes elsewhere in France and Greece.

For Greece, the danger carried grim resonance: a 2018 wildfire​ at the seaside community of Mati​, near Athens, killed 104 people.

Firefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home

Gale-force winds whipped up the flames of a major wildfire burning out of control in a seaside area on the Greek mainland Saturday, hampering efforts to bring under control the blaze that broke out the previous day and led authorities to evacuate more than 250 people by sea on Friday. Eighteen water-dropping planes and

Gale-force winds are driving flames through a seaside resort in Greece and triggering fresh evacuations as wildfires spread fast throughout Athens.

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-west

Emergency crews have been tackling wildfires four times the size of Paris in south-west France.

French authorities ordered 4,000 more people evacuated from tourist sites along its Atlantic coast, widening what may be France's largest peacetime evacuation.

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