Firefighters have faced another day battling massive blazes scorching forests across France and Spain, with a forecast of another heatwave in southwest France threatening to complicate matters.
More than 325,000 people have fled their homes as some of the worst forest fires in either country's history rage across southwest France and central Spain near Madrid.
France's major fire has caused an unprecedented "pyrocumulonimbus" — a giant fire cloud that creates its own winds and packs lightning that causes more blazes, said the National Firefighters Federation of France (FNSPF).
French President Emmanuel Macron is holding a crisis cabinet meeting to discuss the emergency on Monday morning.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited fire-hit areas in Valencia, in the east of the country where firefighters are battling a new blaze and where 15,000 people have been forced to flee their homes.
Heatwave threat
In France, more than 250,000 people have been evacuated.
The main fire in Gironde, home to Bordeaux, was "extremely intense and unpredictable, advancing erratically toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area", warned Interior Minister Laurent Nunez.
Weather forecasters warn another heatwave could hit France from Tuesday, with temperatures reaching 40C.
King Felipe VI said the wildfires had caused "incalculable" damage to Spain's natural heritage.
Around 75,000 residents have been evacuated from the Madrid region, Avila, Toledo and Valencia.
One person was killed on Saturday in a separate fire near Valencia, while two firefighters were killed near Bordeaux on Tuesday.
Meanwhile in Italy, coastguards evacuated over 400 tourists by sea near Peschici due to spreading blazes.
