A devastating wildfire in southwestern France has left parts of Biscarrosse's commercial district in ruins
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.
The situation in France is currently stable, authorities say, but another heatwave is on the way.
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.
The fire has raged in the region for several days with officials now ordering the evacuation of the entire Cap Ferret peninsula.
A drone has revealed what remains of this forest after a wildfire burned through over 30,000 hectares of it.
Fire breaks out amid Spain's third heatwave of the summer, with temperatures forecast to rise above 40C.
Drone video shows the scale of a major wildfire in northern Spain where more than 150 square kilometres have burned
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...
The blaze has destroyed more than 100 homes in Drammen and has spread to a nearby forest, authorities say.
The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as of 'exceptional scale', continues to rage for the second day.
At least 13 people, including five believed to be Britons, were killed by Thursday's wildfire in Spain's Almeria province.
The BBC's Nick Beake sees homes razed to the ground and "a sea of black" in one of the villages hit hardest by Spain's deadly wildfires.
Hundreds of firefighters in Spain have been battling a deadly wildfire in the south of the country.
At least four Britons are believed to be among the victims of the blaze, which left another 23 people missing.
Holidaymakers tell the BBC how they grabbed a change of clothes, bundled into cars and fled the flames and smoke.
Eleven people were killed and 19 are missing after a wildfire tore through a Spanish village, with four victims who may have been British who were burned in their car, authorities said on Friday. Authorities said many of the victims may be foreign tourists visiting Bedar, a small village in Los Gallardos district, but that they were still confirming their identities. They described victims trying to flee the fast-moving blaze through difficult, forested terrain. About 400 firefighters and troops...
Bodies found in cars as deadly Spain wildfire kills at least 12
Six people were injured in the blaze in Los Gallardos in the province of Almería.
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.
Firefighters race to contain flames in northeastern Spain
The Aspen Acres Fire, one of about 40 wildfires burning across western US, has destroyed homes and forced evacuations.
A raging wildfire near Vouzela in central Portugal spread across several municipalities, driven by winds and heat
Over 100 firefighters are working to extinguish a fire near Thessaloniki which has claimed a life.