Wildfires spread across Spain, France and Portugal after extreme heat

This highway in Spain now leads towards an inferno, just one of many wildfires burning across Western Europe. In France, similar conditions in the southwest, driving through thick smoke near Béziers, where further down the road the fires are dumped on. Right next to the highway, traffic at a standstill but with their own air show as emergency teams struggle to keep the flames under control. Thousands of firefighters have been battling wildfires across parts of France, Portugal and Spain including this one in Catalunya which was burning out of control consuming hectare after hectare. Thousands have burned across the three countries so far and here thousands of people told to stay indoors to Others have been moved on completely. These are among 1,500 tourists from campsites evacuated in places like Canet en Roussillon in France, 50 kilometres from the Spanish border. Many of their belongings have been destroyed by the flames. It feels as if we are in a bad movie. We don't really realise that it has happened. We realise that we have lost everything, that there is nothing left. It's difficult to accept. In Portugal, near Vusaila in the north, strong winds have worsened the speed and scale of the flames with two seriously injured. Here they've had help from Spanish firefighters from across the border, so fast is the spread at a speed covering the equivalent of more than 800 football pitchers an hour. The World Meteorological Organisation has warned that record temperatures across Europe would worsen the risk of wildfires and this only the start of the season. Frances Reid, Al Jazeera.