"I feel like crying": Devastating wildfires in France, Spain reduce homes to ashes

Описание: As France and Spain battle deadly wildfires after a scorching summer, the European Union's emergency coordination centre in Brussels helped deploy aircraft, firefighters and other resources where they are needed most, officials said on Wednesday.

The wildfires have forced the unprecedented evacuations of people in France and Spain, prompting renewed calls for stronger disaster preparedness as climate change increases the risk of extreme fires.

Temperatures were set to soar again in France and Spain on Wednesday in a fourth heatwave of the summer, increasing the threat from wildfires that have forced large-scale evacuations of people, scorched through forests and killed wildlife while experts warned that another spell of extreme heat was imminent in Europe.

Residents of La Vilavella in Spain's Castellon province returned to their homes for the first time on Wednesday. "Anxious. Yes, I want to cry," a resident said, looking at the state of her home.


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