BORDEAUX, France — Forests burned and villages emptied as more than 325,000 people fled blazes tearing through France and Spain on Sunday, with firefighters struggling to contain flames stretching kilometres. The infernos, raging for days in France’s southwest and central Spain near Madrid, rank among the worst either nation has seen in peacetime. France’s major fire has caused an unprecedented “pyrocumulonimbus” — a gigantic fire cloud that creates its own winds and packs lightning that causes more blazes, said the National Firefighters Federation of France (FNSPF). “It’s a David-versus-Goliath scenario… at some point, we’ll find a weak spot and strike […]...Keep on reading: 'Monster' wildfires force 350,000 from homes in France, Spain