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Hundreds of people had to flee their homes on Sunday as a pair of wildfires, fuelled by a sudden heatwave and dry conditions, tore through forested areas just to the south of Berlin. “We have to assume that the situation will intensify,” said Michael Stübgen, the interior minister of Brandenburg, the state that surrounds the German capital, as he inspected the situation near the site of the first fire, in Treuenbrietzen. “There might be more evacuations.” State Premier Dietmar Woidke said that 1,400 firefighters are working to control the blaze, some from the neighbouring state of Saxony-Anhal…