Wildfires are tearing across parts of France and Spain, where firefighters now describe their work as a 'David v Goliath' struggle against some of the biggest blazes either country has seen.
In southwest France, a fire near Bordeaux has already devoured around 42,000 hectares of pine forest and destroyed 240 homes, while in central Spain a 'monster' wildfire west of Madrid has grown to five times the size of Barcelona.
