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Story summary
- France is battling wildfires that have burned over 116,000 hectares and forced more than 250,000 evacuations.
- The Gironde fire has scorched about 42,000 hectares, creating its own winds, lightning and a pyrocumulonimbus cloud.
- President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis cabinet, calling the blazes the worst in France since World II.
- Two French firefighters died and 84 were injured while fighting the flames.
