Wildfire danger in Europe shifts to Greece as evacuation orders remain in France

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A second French fire stopped expanding overnight after racing across 10 square kilometers (4 square miles) in six hours Friday — "faster than a horse at full gallop," according to the prefecture. In southwestern France, firefighters held a vast wildfire within its perimeter, with about 198,000 people now allowed home after what may have been the country's largest peacetime evacuation .