“It suddenly became night.” Passengers got a fright when their train stopped in the Spanish countryside as wildfires encroached from both sides of the track. Fires 9News MORE:
A firefighter cries near a wildfire in the Losacio area in north western Spain on Sunday July 17, 2022. Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in Spain and France as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave.
In France, heat records were broken and swirling hot winds complicated firefighting in the country's southwest. Wildfires are raging out of control in France and Spain as Europe wilts under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities in Madrid blamed for hundreds of deaths. In all, more than 31,000 people have been forced from their homes and summer vacation spots in the Gironde region since the wildfires began July 12.
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