Firefighters are tackling new blazes while others have been contained, and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee. A new heat wave forecast to hit Europe could make conditions worse.
“The scale of this crisis is very difficult to grasp,” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain said Sunday in a news briefing. He said fires had torn through 20,000 hectares of Spanish territory — an area larger than the District of Columbia — in the p... [8754 chars]