Macron calls crisis meeting as wildfires drive 250,000 from their homes
French President Emmanuel Macron has convened a crisis meeting as massive wildfires continue to force hundreds of thousands of evacuations in France and Spain. Authorities are struggling to contain the blazes ahead of a predicted surge in temperatures.
Why it matters
The scale of these wildfires highlights the increasing threat of climate-driven natural disasters to European infrastructure and tourism.
<p>French President Emmanuel Macron called a crisis meeting Monday focusing on monster, uncontrolled wildfires that have forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes, amid a first glimmer of hope that the spread of the largest blaze may have slowed.</p> <p>In the Gironde region of southwest France, where flames have burned an area four times the size of Paris, the prefecture said the situation overnight had remained “globally stable" — a change from successive days where the giant blaze raging since last week had edged closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux.</p> <p>No new evacuations were announced.
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