Philadelphia-sized wildfires scorch France and Spain as heat dome looms
TL;DR
France and Spain are battling unprecedented wildfires amid a brutal heat wave, with hundreds of thousands forced from their homes near Bordeaux as temperatures threaten triple digits and a looming heat dome promises more dangerous conditions for the continent.
- Record-breaking fires tear through France and Spain ahead of another heat dome The Washington Post
- ‘A Wake-Up Call’: Massive Wildfires Pierce Madrid’s Bubble The New York Times
- France evacuates thousands as fires displace a third of a million in southwest Europe NPR
- Macron calls fire crisis France’s worst since WWII as crews race to quell flames NBC News
- French wildfire created country's 1st recorded pyrocumulonimbus cloud, igniting more fires PBS
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