Europe wildfires: more than 300,000 flee homes and holiday accommodation in France and Spain as fires rage

Fires displace people on massive scale and trigger one of the largest peacetime civilian evacuation operations ever carried out in France

• More than 250,000 people flee wildfires in France and Spain

Spain has declared a national emergency, the first time the country has ever done so over a wildfire.

France's evacuations constituted probably" the biggest peacetime evacuation the country has ever seen, its interior minister said.