00:00French authorities say nearly 98,000 hectares have burned in the country this year, a historic record just as officials
00:08in the southwestern region announced evacuation orders for three suburbs of the city of Bordeaux.
00:14Residents of Loaillon, Essene and Merignac on Saturday were told to leave the area immediately via planned evacuation routes. Some
00:25200,000 people have been evacuated in southwest France in the Gironde and Lange region in the past week.
00:32Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister Sebastián Le Conu ordered the armed forces to deploy a military transport aircraft to help
00:41combat the fires alongside some 100 firefighters from Paris.
00:46Meanwhile, in Spain, a national state of emergency was declared on Friday for the first time with at least 60
00:53,000 people evacuated as fires burned near the capital of Madrid.
00:58According to Prime Minister Sanchez, the priority is to, quote, save lives. France and Spain have both requested additional help
01:07from other EU countries to cope with the blazes via the bloc's civil protection mechanism.
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