New Delhi, July 27 -- French President Emmanuel Macron is set to chair a crisis cabinet meeting to manage wildfires currently raging across southern France, according to CNBC.

The wildfires, which began in Gironde in the Southwest of France on Wednesday, have to date burned 42,000 hectares and have forced more than 300,000 people to evacuate, one of the biggest evacuations in French history.

France's interior minister, Laurent Nunez, said (translated from French to English), "The situation remains highly unfavourable" on X on Saturday. He further added more information regarding the start of the fire, saying again on X, "At the start of the night, in Gironde, the fire became extremely virulent and unpredictable again, generating its own...