Maximum temperatures of 39C are expected today. Around 6,500 people – including local residents – have been evacuated as wildfires continue in the area
France and Britain suffered soaring temperatures Wednesday, edging closer to the blistering heat already engulfing Spain and Portugal as wildfires destroyed vast stretches of Western European forestland.
Firefighters in France were battling two ferocious wildfires with nearly 1,400 hectares of forest razed in the south-western Gironde department on the Atlantic coast near Bordeaux.