Thomas Cazenave says they are preparing if further evacuations are issued, as the mayor of a nearby town called the situation "catastrophic".
Local and visitors tell the BBC of disbelief and anxiety as wildfires force more than 300,000 people to evacuate.
As the flames approached the city of Bordeaux, 55,000 more people had to be evacuated from their homes overnight.
More than 340,000 people have now been evacuated from wildfires in France and Spain.
Around 200,000 people have been evacuated around Bordeaux as wildfires tear through southwestern France.
Spain's PM warns of "complex hours" ahead as authorities in France say they are far from bringing blazes burning near Bordeaux under control.
France has appealed for international help, while Spain has declared a national emergency.
Trains were stopped, schools were halted and residents were evacuated in southern China as Typhoon Noul headed towards the coast. The National Meteorological Centre issued an orange typhoon alert – the second highest level in a four-tier system – on Saturday morning as it moved northwest across the South China Sea at a speed of 20km/h (12mph). It was expected to land somewhere between Hong Kong and Huilai county in eastern Guangdong overnight with wind speeds of up to 151km/h and then move...
The number of people forced to flee the heatwave-induced fires in Spain and France has now passed the 100,000 mark.
More than 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain wildfires in central Spain.
At least 10,000 people have been evacuated following wildfires in the central region of Madrid.
Spain’s government declared a national emergency on Friday after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid, while in southern France around 40,000 people also had to flee. Fire there has ravaged over 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres), French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said, saying the blaze was “the largest of the season”. “As I speak, gradually, 40,000 people have either been evacuated or are currently being evacuated,” he added, saying there had...
The fire has raged in the region for several days with officials now ordering the evacuation of the entire Cap Ferret peninsula.
About 800 firefighters and hundreds of gendarmes and soldiers deployed to battle the flames west of Bordeaux.
A third firefighter has died in Europe while tackling ongoing wildfires across the continent.
Thousands of people are being evacuated from areas of southern France as firefighters battle huge wildfires.
“As a precautionary measure, 1,505 people from vulnerable areas have already been shifted to designated rescue centres, while evacuation plans remain in place for other vulnerable locations,” says government spokesman
A "state of catastrophe" has been declared in Coquimbo and Huasco following the downpour.
Dozens of vehicles were swept away or submerged after overflowing rivers breached their banks, causing widespread disruption, the officials said
The Canadian military was preparing on Saturday to evacuate a remote community of 600 people threatened by forest wildfires that have spread, choking smoke across a broad swathe of the United States. Federal Emergencies Minister Eleanor Olszewski said late on Friday that the armed forces would use aircraft to evacuate the inhabitants of Fort Hope in sparsely populated northwestern Ontario, where some of the most intense fires are burning. The region has few roads and relies heavily on air...
Landslide has buried homes and forced more than 1,100 people to evacuate.
Typhoon Bavi is continuing to bring torrential downpours to northeast China, forcing the transport and economic hub of Shenyang to halt non-essential travel and shut down parts of its subway network. Emergency measures remain in place on Tuesday in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, where Bavi continues to lash the city, despite weakening into a tropical storm. Across the province, more than 360,000 people have been evacuated as a result of the weather system, according to state...
Wildfires spread over 800 hectares near Fontainebleau, as authorities sent two waterbombing planes to tackle blazes.
Typhoon Bavi made landfall in eastern China on Saturday night, the second major storm to hit the country in a week, causing thousands of flight and train cancellations while more than 2.4 million people were evacuated from areas in the path of the storm. More than 2,800 flights were likely to be cancelled by Chinese airlines as of 8pm on Saturday, the state news agency Xinhua reported. Shanghai’s Pudong and Hongqiao airports were set to cancel over 650 flights, about 30 per cent of their...
Hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from eastern Zhejiang province, with the city of Wenzhou close to the path of the storm.
Super Typhoon Bavi has been downgraded but is still dangerous, meteorologists say.
Holidaymakers tell the BBC how they grabbed a change of clothes, bundled into cars and fled the flames and smoke.
About 130,000 people have been evacuated from the Guangxi region while thousands of rescuers have been deployed.
At least two have been killed by flooding due to Maysak, while another 480,000 have been evacuated across the southern Guangxi province.
Tour de France organisers ban spectators from stage three as a wildfire hits the Pyrénées-Orientales region.
A fast-moving wildfire has forced around 10,000 people to evacuate after burning more than 1,500 hectares in France.
The storm is forecast to bring winds in excess of 160mph and waves nearly 11m high when it makes landfall on Monday.
An evacuation was ordered on Saturday evening at the National Mall as storms gathered around Washington just hours before US President Donald Trump was scheduled to deliver a speech commemorating America’s 250th anniversary of independence. Those on the Mall were encouraged to go to federal buildings nearby or Smithsonian museums. “Freedom 250 will share updates on programming and doors reopening,” Freedom 250 spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez said in a statement. Plans for fireworks were still...
The Aspen Acres Fire, one of about 40 wildfires burning across western US, has destroyed homes and forced evacuations.