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Summer wildfires are common around the Mediterranean, but the fire season has started early - and people are experiencing the increasing risk the infernos pose to their neighbourhoods.

Three people died and dozens were rescued as flash floods swept through wildfire-scarred Ruidoso, N.M., with rivers surging over 20 feet in minutes.

A wildfire in Marseille, France's second largest city, swept through 750 hectares of land, affecting at least 70 homes of which 10 were destroyed. There were no human casualties. Some 700 firefighters ...

A wildfire that reached France's second-largest city and left 110 injured was pushed back overnight but was not yet ...