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Huge wildfires have torn through France and Spain , leaving several people dead and displacing hundreds of thousands of others.
The devastating blazes have shattered records for the largest wildfires on record in both countries and impelled what are believed to be the largest peacetime evacuation operations France and Spain have conducted in modern history, driving roughly 330,000 people from their homes and vacation sites.
Officials have estimated that more than 400,000 acres have burned in Spain this year and another 300,000 in France amid a series of blistering European heat waves .
Firefighters succeeded in containing some of the major blazes in the two countries by Wednesday morning, but with temperatures once again expected to spike this week, authorities cautioned that the battle was not yet over and continued to evacuate thousands of people in threatened regions.
The European Union’s emergency response center meanwhile warned that still more countries will confront a heightened wildfire risk in the coming weeks.
"The next risk, it's already moving to Greece and also Central Europe," Maria Zuber, head of the European Union Emergency Response Coordination Center, told reporters on Wednesday.
"Greece for the moment was spared, and now we see that it will go to Greece. Italy will face risk at the beginning of August, and we will need to see what will happen with the Iberian Peninsula, because if [it is] there as well, we will have all Europe on fire," she said.
Here are ways you can help the victims impacted by the wildfires.
Red Cross
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has mobilized relief efforts in both Spain and France, where teams from the national Red Cross organizations are providing emergency shelter, food, water, medical care, and other essential supplies and support to thousands of displaced people.
Cruz Roja, the Spanish Red Cross, is collecting donations here to support its ongoing wildfire response.
You can also donate to local branches of the Croix-Rouge Francaise, the French Red Cross, that are working on the front lines of the fires in the southwestern part of the country here and here .
World Central Kitchen
World Central Kitchen , the hunger-fighting nonprofit organization founded by celebrity chef and TIME100 Philanthropy honoree José Andrés, is working to provide meals to people in need in both Spain and France in response to the wildfires.
You can donate to its efforts in Ávila, Spain, here and those in Bordeaux, France, here .
Secours Populaire Français
Secours Populaire Français, a French nonprofit dedicated to combating poverty, is soliciting volunteers and donations to support the people severely affected by the wildfires in Gironde, Landes, and everywhere else in the country where the blazes are raging.
“The immediate crisis is real, but it will also be a long-term challenge,” the organization wrote . “Once the fires are extinguished, families will still need help rebuilding their lives and navigating the necessary procedures, isolated individuals will need support, and local businesses will need to resume their activities.”
You can make a donation here .
Sud Ouest Solidarité
Sud Ouest Solidarité, the charitable arm of one of France’s largest regional newspapers, has launched a fundraising campaign to collect donations for people affected by the fires and the firefighters working to combat them.
The organization said in a Tuesday post on its social media accounts that nearly 500,000 euros had so far been raised through the campaign.
You can donate here .
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