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EU Deploys 2,200 Firefighters as Record France-Spain Wildfires Force 320,000 Evacuations

7/30/2026

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France and Spain are battling record wildfires that have forced more than 320,000 evacuations.
The blazes have killed three people, including two French firefighters.
The European Union has deployed over 2,200 firefighters and more than 20 aircraft to assist.
A pyrocumulonimbus, the first recorded in France, formed over Gironde and generated its own lightning.
Scientists attribute the June heatwave and 96% of the fires to climate change.

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France and Spain are battling record wildfires that have forced more than 320,000 evacuations.
The blazes have killed three people, including two French firefighters.
The European Union has deployed over 2,200 firefighters and more than 20 aircraft to assist.
A pyrocumulonimbus, the first recorded in France, formed over Gironde and generated its own lightning.
Scientists attribute the June heatwave and 96% of the fires to climate change.