French President Emmanuel Macron will hold an emergency cabinet meeting Monday morning as massive wildfires continue to threaten the city of Bordeaux, according to i24NEWS. Hundreds of thousands have been evacuated across France and Spain, with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warning that 'hard hours await us.'
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold an emergency cabinet meeting Monday morning, according to i24NEWS, as massive wildfires continue to threaten the city of Bordeaux and neighboring Spain. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned that 'hard hours await us,' with evacuations now reaching hundreds of thousands across both countries, the report said.
The update comes after The Zioneer reported at 06:16 Jerusalem Monday that Macron was expected to convene such a meeting, citing N12. At that time, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the fire was advancing toward Bordeaux 'unexpectedly,' but Mayor Thomas Cazenave stated there was no plan to evacuate the city's 850,000 residents. The i24NEWS report now confirms the meeting is scheduled and provides the broader scale of the disaster, adding Sánchez's warning and the large-scale evacuations.
The wildfires are part of a devastating summer of extreme heat and fires across Europe. As The Zioneer has reported, France saw a record area burned by mid-July, and the country experienced a record heat wave in June with 40 drowning deaths. In a separate report, The Zioneer noted that 59 people were arrested in France on suspicion of involvement in the wildfire wave.
Mayor Cazenave has stated that no evacuation of Bordeaux is currently planned, despite the fire's advance. The situation remains dynamic.
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