Thousands of Spaniards evacuated from huge wildfires returned home on Wednesday while in France firefighters braced for worsening conditions in their own battle with raging flames. Spain lifted remaining evacuation orders for the Avila province on Wednesday, a day after doing so for multiple municipalities west of Madrid. And Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday that efforts to extinguish a major wildfire near Madrid were progressing "favourably". Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement- 'Extreme temperatures' -Nevertheless, conditions were set to worsen as the fourth heatwave of an already intense summer arrived. In France, some 92,000 hectares has burned over the same time, the largest on records that date back two decades.