Firefighters in southwest France are battling a mega-fire four times the size of Paris. Meanwhile, temperatures are expected to climb above 104 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday. Authorities in

At the peak of the evacuations, a third of a million people were driven from homes and vacation sites in France and Spain.

In a crisis spanning large parts of Europe, fire crews in Spain, Italy and Greece were also fighting blazes on the world’s fastest-warming continent.

Rob Fox says the city of Bordeaux is "drenched in smoke and smog" as huge fires rage in the area.

French authorities ordered 4,000 more people evacuated from tourist sites along its Atlantic coast, widening what may be France's largest peacetime evacuation.

NBC News spoke with residents as some of Europe’s most severe wildfires in decades threaten the Atlantic coast, including the tourist hub of Bordeaux.

A wildfire the size of Philadelphia is pushing near the French city of Bordeaux, where temperatures could soar into triple digits in the coming days.

From his vineyards in Bordeaux wine country, Edouard le Grix de la Salle can sometimes smell the burning forests far away. The smoke brings a whiff of hardship for the region's economic fortunes. Wildfires that have burned an area four times the size of Paris and driven 220,

"We will not be affording them the benefit of listening to their politicized drivel until they renounce their condescending and disrespectful rhetoric," said a U.S. official.