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Hundreds of thousands evacuated in France and Spain as wildfires rage on

In Spain, some elderly evacuees who fled a town in the Madrid area are reportedly being allowed to return home on Monday as fire crews work to stabilise a blaze that has ravaged areas around the capital.

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00:01More than 320,000 people have been forced to flee their homes across France and Spain
00:07as a series of wildfires continue to wreak havoc across parts of southern Europe.
00:12In southwestern France, a fire is currently still raging in the Gironde area near Bordeaux
00:18with flames as close as 15 kilometers from the major city.
00:22The vacuaries are being housed in makeshift shelters and exhibition centers and sport halls across the region.
00:27Thousands of firefighters are still working to contain the blaze.
00:32In Spain, some of the fires near Madrid were slowly contained.
00:36Some evacuees who had fled reportedly were allowed to return home on Monday.
00:40In the coastal region of Valencia, however, some 15,000 people were evacuated as a new fire broke out.
00:47A man was killed in Manises, marking Spain's first recorded death in the latest fires.
00:53According to weather forecasts, temperatures are expected to rise dramatically in most of the affected regions over the next few
01:00days.
01:01Scientists warn that drought combined with heat waves, which are both intensified by human-caused climate change,
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