Firefighters raced on Tuesday to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented evacuations of tens of thousands of people across France and Spain, as western Europe braced for another heatwave. The fires have torn through a region already battered by a blisteringly hot and dry summer. Crews were seeking to capitalise on more favourable weather before a new wave of higher temperatures settled in from Wednesday. In the Bordeaux region of France, firefighters contained the forest blaze...
Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires.
Three fires in the Madrid region have caused special concerns, with a new heatwave expected to hit Spain from Wednesday.
The BBC’s cost of living correspondent explains how to handle holiday cancellations as a result of European wildfires.
A blaze near Bordeaux has torn through more than 162 sq miles (420 sq km) in less than four days, while the Madrid region is seeing its worst fires ever.
More than 300,000 people have been evacuated from their homes to safety in France and Spain.
France and Spain are battling vast wildfires that have forced more than 325,000 people to flee, as a new heatwave looms.
Wildfires in southwestern France are continuing to burn near the city of Bordeaux.
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.
Authorities face the "worst fire in the history of the region", Madrid officials say, as French firefighters battle a blaze heading towards Bordeaux.
At least 10,000 people have been evacuated following wildfires in the central region of Madrid.
French authorities order evacuations in tourist hot spot, as Spain's government declares national emergency.
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...
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.
A wildfire in Spain's Guadalajara region has burned 32,000 hectares, in one of the country's largest recorded blazes.
Wildfires in Ontario have blanketed US and Canadian cities with dangerous smoke.
The air quality in large parts of Michigan, Minneapolis and Minnesota is deemed "hazardous" by authorities.
The country, which suffers each summer, builds an arsenal of high-tech surveillance to help pre-position firefighters.
Wildfire smoke turned skies orange over Toronto and the rest of Ontario.
There are currently 838 wildfires actively burning across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
Twelve of the 13 victims were foreign nationals, Spanish authorities said on Tuesday.
Wildfires near Paris scorch 1,300 hectares as France endures its third heatwave in three months.
Wildfires spread over 800 hectares near Fontainebleau, as authorities sent two waterbombing planes to tackle blazes.
It was the first time firefighting planes had been sent up from the normally drier and hotter south of the country to tackle fires in the Paris region.
The unnamed pair were found semi-conscious with 40% burns after being trapped by the blazes raging through Almeria province.
Andalusia's deadliest fire comes as heatwaves across Europe have left swaths of the continent highly vulnerable.
Hundreds of firefighters battled forest infernos in France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday as temperatures rose again in heatwave-scarred Europe. The latest wildfires have already devastated more than 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of land – twice the size of Manhattan – across the three countries where temperatures in some places were predicted to touch 40°C on Sunday. Authorities registered thousands of excess deaths during one of Europe’s worst heatwaves in June, and with more extreme weather...