Firefighters in France and Spain raced to contain some of the worst wildfires in living memory on Tuesday as another heatwave threatened to intensify the crisis. The blazes have scorched vast forest areas, destroyed properties and forced tens of thousands to evacuate. In the picture, a man walks past a plant nursery destroyed by a wildfire in a business park in Biscarrosse, southwestern France

Residents work to extinguish smouldering tree trunks following a wildfire in La Adrada, about 95 kilometres west of Madrid. Firefighters are racing against time to contain wildfires across Spain and France before a fresh heatwave, forecast to bring scorching temperatures to Western Europe, intensifies the crisis

A woman cleans her garden after a wildfire swept through La Vall d'Uixó, about 55 kilometres northeast of Valencia, Spain. The wildfires have forced around 60,000 people to evacuate after burning through nearly 77,000 hectares (1.90 lakh acres) of land in Spain—an area almost the size of New York City

Burnt premises and vehicles destroyed by a wildfire in a business park in Biscarrosse, southwestern France. Over the past six days, the wildfire near Bordeaux, also in southwestern France, has scorched around 42,000 hectares (103,000 acres), forced about 220,000 people to evacuate and destroyed 240 houses

Residents work to extinguish smouldering tree trunks after a wildfire in La Adrada, about 95 kilometres west of Madrid. Describing the blazes as "the most painful expression of a climate emergency", Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the fires reflect the growing impact of climate change.