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Story summary
- France evacuated over 250,000 people and Spain more than 75,000, the biggest peacetime displacement in French history.
- Spain declared its first national emergency for a wildfire after two fires merged near Madrid.
- France deployed an A400M transport, 1,500 soldiers and 1.5 million face masks to combat the Gironde blaze.
- Security forces were redeployed to fight the fires, prompting the Tour de France stage to be shortened from Thoiry to Paris.
