Thousands evacuated as above 40C forecast for some French regions on Monday and more lives lost in soaring heat in Spain
and Spain have destroyed thousands of hectares of land and forced thousands of residents and holidaymakers to flee.
By late Sunday, the fires in Gironde, which have been raging since Tuesday, had already destroyed 13,000 hectares , driven by high winds and forcing the evacuation of 16,200 holidaymakers, fire service officials said.Photograph: Jérôme Gilles/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock “In certain zones in the south-west, it will be an apocalypse of heat,” forecaster Francois Gourand of Meteo-France told AFP.
The fires have already killed several emergency personnel since last week, most recently a firefighter who died late on Sunday while battling a blaze in the country’s north-west. A firefighter died from burns on Sunday while battling a blaze in Spain’s northwestern province of Zamora, the regional government said.Photograph: Eric Renom/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock
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