整个欧洲像个大烤箱：西、法山火逼近波尔多，三十三万人逃离家园

This summer, all of Europe feels as if it's been thrown into a giant oven.

Wave after wave of heat keeps rolling in, baking the land dry and brittle, as if one spark is all it would take.

And so wildfires have erupted, one after another, across Spain and France — and spun completely out of control.

The fire has run from Andalusia in southern Spain all the way north, even reaching the famous Fontainebleau forest outside Paris.

So far, the number of people forced from their homes by the fires in the two countries adds up to more than 330,000.

France has about 220,000 evacuated, Spain more than 70,000 who have fled their homes, and tens of thousands more told to shelter in place.

Spain's fire situation is so severe that the entire country has entered a state of emergency.

In France, the most nerve-wracking part is the fire closing in, step by step, on the historic city of Bordeaux — at its nearest, just fifteen kilometers away.

The mountain forest burned in France this year may be double the area of the same period last year.

Thankfully, in this moment of crisis, Europe's nations have chosen to lend one another a hand.

Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Portugal and several other countries have all sent firefighting planes to the front lines.

But even so, a new wave of heat is still closing in, and this race against the fire has no end in sight anytime soon.

Many scientists warn: as the climate warms, extreme summers like this one will likely only become more common.

Today's Europe may well be many other places' tomorrow.