Camera mounted on a roof captures incredible spread of wildfires in Spain

Camera mounted on a roof captures incredible spread of wildfires in Spain French firefighters battle a wildfire spreading in Marcheprime. (EPA Images pic)NAVALUENGA: President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said one forest fire in southwest France had been "contained" even as another, much bigger one near Bordeaux continued to rage, and western Europe braced for new heatwaves this week.France and Spain are battling the worst wildfires in living memory, which have ripped through hundreds of hectares of woodland, destroying properties and forcing evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people.The return of searing temperatures, from Tuesday in France and from Wednesday in Spain, threaten to complicate fire-fighting efforts.Spanish interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the coming hours would be "absolutely decisive" to bring fires burning west of the capital, Madrid, under control.Macron, on a visit to a crisis centre in the winemaking capital of Bordeaux, said: "The coming weeks will be tough and we have to hold out."That southwestern city, in the Gironde region, lies just short distance from a vast and turbulent wildfire that is creating its own winds and sparking fresh blazes around it.That unchecked, gigantic blaze -- which has created a rare pyrocumulonimbus cloud packing lightning -- has over the past six days ravaged 42,000 hectares, forced 220,000 people to flee and destroyed 240 houses.Macron said a smaller fire in the adjoining Landes -- which had nonetheless forced the evacuation of more than 30,000 people -- was now "contained".But he warned it "remains virulent and we must be extremely cautious over the next few hours and the coming days".This was due to the "conditions of climate change in which we will live," he said.'Lost everything'In Spain, where blazes were burning west of Madrid, some 60,000 people have also been evacuated.At a sports hall just outside Madrid, displaced people sprawled on camp beds, held their heads in their hands and comforted pets.Maria Angeles Canete fought back tears as she looked around the desolation that used to be her campsite near Navaluenga, west of the capital."We lost everything," she said.

"We had this campsite, we had another one, and we've lost it all. We have nothing."The EU on Monday announced more water-bombing planes were being sent to France, in addition to those already deployed to Spain.But EU commissioner Hadja Lahbib told AFP that its fleet was increasingly stretched … NAVALUENGA, Spain -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said one forest fire in southwest France had been "contained" even as another much bigger one near Bordeaux continued to rage and western Europe braced for new heat waves this week.

The record wildfires, which have destroyed more than 200 homes and prompted large evacuations, could intensify with the arrival of a new heat wave. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday reviewed cooperation in the security sector and discussed ways to further expand collaboration with Qatar's Minister of Interior and Commander of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad. A statement by Qatar's Ministry of Interior said Sheikh Khalifa received Naqvi at its office in Doha, where the two sides reviewed cooperative relations between the two countries in the security field.

"They discussed ways to further strengthen and develop them, in addition to exchanging views on several issues of mutual interest," the statement added.