NBC News spoke to residents as some of Europe’s most severe wildfires in decades threaten the Atlantic coast, including the tourist hub of Bordeaux.

Luggage-clad residents and tourists fled a French peninsula by boat, and the smell of smoke drifted into parts of Madrid on July 24 as wildfires swept through parts of Western…

“I’ve lived here for 36 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” a resident of Navaluenga told Reuters.