The risk of fire is expected to reach extreme levels due to heat, southerly winds and low humidity.

Wildfires in France and Spain intensify, forcing over 300,000 evacuations as heatwaves, strong winds and record-burning areas fuel a worsening climate crisis.

French and Spanish authorities are struggling to contain the blazes, which are partly caused by successive heatwaves.

Firefighters in France and Spain are battling massive wildfires that have displaced over 320,000 people and threatened Bordeaux as another heatwave looms. Fires remain out of…