166,000 evacuated as wildfires spin out of control in France, Spain

Massive wildfires have led to the evacuation of over 166,000 people in France and Spain, with fires raging near major cities like Madrid and Bordeaux. French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez have mobilized national resources and sought assistance from the European Union. The fires, exacerbated by strong winds and drought, are explicitly linked to human-fuelled climate change by the World Weather Attribution group, marking them as unprecedented in scale for the affected regions. Emergency shelters have been set up, and FFP2 masks distributed due to harmful smoke.