Towns in the path of blazes in France and Spain are being evacuated as two people die in Spain and French authorities send reinforcements to help fight the wildfires in the country's south-west.
France has scrambled more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to combat spreading wildfires that were being fed by hot, swirling winds from a searing heatwave grilling much of Europe.Authorities in France are evacuating more towns as the wind direction changesIn Spain, two people have been killed in blazes there.
Three additional water-dropping planes were joining six others already making repeated runs over the flames and dense clouds of smoke, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday night, local time. The body of a 69-year-old sheep farmer was found on Monday in the same hilly area where a 62-year-old firefighter died a day earlier when he was trapped by flames in the north-western Zamora province.
Forecasters warned of temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius for Monday. Climate change is making such life-threatening extremes less of a rarity.
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