But blazes flared elsewhere across Europe and actor George Clooney said he’d evacuated his French home because of a nearby wildfire. In the Bordeaux region of southwest France, wildfire evacuees streamed back to nine localities that authorities now deem safe after round-the-clock combat with the huge fire that ignited last week. Successive heatwaves have created tinder-dry conditions across swaths of southern Europe and whack-a-mole emergencies for fire crews, with blazes flaring as others are extinguished. At the peak of evacuations, a third of a million people were driven from homes and vacation sites in France and Spain. In Turkey, firefighters and aircraft battled forest fires in four western provinces, including tourist areas Mugla and Antalya.