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LEGE-CAP FERRET, France \u2014 French President Emmanuel Macron held 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>\n

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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 \u201cglobally stable\u201d \u2014 a change from previous days where the giant blaze raging since last week edged closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux.<\/p>\n

In the adjacent southwestern Landes region, where hundreds of firefighters have been making progress against another virulent but smaller fire, the prefecture said some rain fell overnight and described the conditions as \u201cfavorable\u201d for firefighting but also cautioned that they could change.<\/p>\n

No new evacuations were announced. But with France about to enter its peak August tourist season, Gironde authorities took more steps to keep vacationers away, banning holiday camps for children and for people with disabilities. The region has evacuated a staggering 220,000 people from fire-hit towns and villages and other localities between the giant blaze and Bordeaux.<\/p>\n

On the ground and in the air, with water- and retardant-dropping aircraft, the massive firefighting effort was engaged in a race against time, battling to make progress before a forecast surge in temperatures from Tuesday that could make fighting flames more difficult.<\/p>\n

Macron didn\u2019t immediately comment after the government crisis meeting he presided over. In a weekend post on X, he pledged long-term support for fire-hit communities, saying: \u201cWe will rebuild, we will repair and we will be present for as long as necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Spain, wildfires have burned out of control around Madrid and in the Valencia region. Authorities evacuated 76,000 people and confined 30,000 others to their homes.<\/p>\n

In both Spain and France, the exceptional scale of the fires – fueled by heat waves that hit especially hard and early this year, making forests and scrubland tinder-dry – are driving calls for stronger action against climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are experiencing is not a series of isolated incidents. It is the consequence of a climate emergency that is making wildfires even more violent, heat waves more frequent,\u201d Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said.<\/p>\n

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A fire raging in hilly, rural terrain in \u00c1vila, west of Madrid, has become Spain\u2019s largest on record, scorching 50,000 hectares (193 square miles), the government says.<\/p>\n

All told, fires have burned 153,000 hectares (590 square miles) this year in Spain – six times the area scorched by blazes in the first half of 2025, said Sara Aagesen, the ecology minister.<\/p>\n

The minister said that another heat wave forecast from Tuesday – which would be Spain\u2019s fourth so far this year – could ratchet up the fire danger.<\/p>\n

Evacuees are fretting about what they\u2019ll find when they\u2019re allowed to return to fire-hit regions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looked like the apocalypse. You couldn\u2019t see anything. Everything was covered in ash,\u201d said Roc\u00edo Dom\u00ednguez, who evacuated with her dog, Simba, from Chapiner\u00eda, west of Madrid.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know when we get to the town, if we\u2019ll have half the house burned down or we\u2019ll have it intact or we won\u2019t have a house,\u201d she said. \u201cAll the clothes, all the memories, everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leicester reported from Paris. Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson in Barcelona contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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