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Unchecked wildfires raging Saturday in France’s southwest and near Spain’s capital Madrid have forced 267,000 people to flee and prompted Paris to deploy its military. France hustled 197,000 people from areas around Bordeaux — including vacation spots crowded this time of year — in what was “probably” the biggest peacetime evacuation the country has seen, its interior minister said.
In Spain, where 70,000 people were evacuated from villages west of Madrid, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the priority was “to save lives” as he visited the fire zone.
The sky over Madrid was covered by a haze of brown-grey smoke and thick black ash coated roof terraces in the centre north of the city, AFP journalists saw. Residents forced to keep their windows closed by the smell of throat-irritating smoke.
Jacqueline Villafranca, a 38-year-old…
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