A devastating wildfire in southwestern France has left parts of Biscarrosse's commercial district in ruins
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...
Both countries expect to see temperatures soar into Wednesday, which could cause the blazes to spread.
Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires.
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A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said. Put another way, that means the inferno was no longer simply being propelled by the weather. It was making its own. The thundercloud also produced violent, erratic winds capable of driving the flames in new directions. The phenomenon, called a pyrocumulonimbus, or pyroCb, is rare in Europe...
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Firefighters sought on Monday to take advantage of more favourable weather to subdue massive wildfires threatening the French city and tourist region of Bordeaux and a number of sites in neighbouring Spain. They were racing against the clock as another heatwave is expected to hit both countries later this week in what has been a blisteringly hot and dry summer across western Europe. Authorities have evacuated about 220,000 people, including holidaymakers and local residents, in France, while...
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.
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.
France and Spain are battling vast wildfires that have forced more than 325,000 people to flee, as a new heatwave looms.
The situation in France is currently stable, authorities say, but another heatwave is on the way.
Wildfires in southwestern France are continuing to burn near the city of Bordeaux.
Blazes are about 15km from Bordeaux, but the city's mayor says there are no plans to evacuate.
France and Spain have deployed thousands of firefighters, and neighbouring countries have sent help.
French and Spanish authorities are struggling to contain the blazes, which are partly caused by successive heatwaves.
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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.
The number of people forced to flee the heatwave-induced fires in Spain and France has now passed the 100,000 mark.
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...
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 wildfire near Bordeaux, France, has burned 3,100 hectares (7,660 acres) of forest
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.
Wildfires raged on Wednesday in Sicily, southwestern France and central Spain, having claimed the lives of three firefighters and sparked thousands of evacuations. Temperatures topped 40 degrees Celsius and gusts of hot wind fanned the flames in the southern Italian island, where wildfires have been raging for several days. Around 6,000 firefighters, forest guards and civil protection officials were deployed to battle the flames with the help of water-bombing aircraft, the head of the region,...
A wildfire in Spain's Guadalajara region has burned 32,000 hectares, in one of the country's largest recorded blazes.
A French modelling scout with close ties to convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home outside Paris, prosecutors and his lawyer said on Wednesday. Under investigation in France, Daniel Siad, 69, was one of several French men accused of aiding the US financier to traffic and abuse women. Siad had not yet been questioned by investigators, but had denied the allegations. “An investigation to determine the cause of death was opened on Monday evening following the...
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