Heat alerts were issued in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balkans, with temperatures expected to soar above 40C.
“Thanks to climate change, we now live in a significantly warmer world,“ Akshay Deoras, a research scientist at the meteorology department in Britain’s University of Reading told AFP, adding that “many still underestimate the danger”.
Later, officials in Castile and Leon in northwestern Spain confirmed another man had been killed while fighting fires.
A child died of heatstroke in Italy on Monday.
Hundreds of residents of Tres Cantos fled from the fast-moving blaze, which was contained on Tuesday morning.
Saved at 'last second'
The wildfire broke out near where a similar blaze forced evacuations earlier this month.
In Castile and Leon, dozens of blazes were reported, including one threatening Las Medulas, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its ancient Roman gold mines.
In neighbouring Portugal, firefighters battled three large wildfires, with the most serious near Trancoso in the centre of the country. More than 700 firefighters were deployed there.
Smoke and greenhouse gas emissions related to forest fires since the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere are among the highest ever recorded, according to the EU climate monitor Copernicus.
Temperature records were broken at four weather stations in southern France on Monday and three-quarters of the country was under heat alerts on Tuesday, with temperatures forecast to top 40C in the Rhone Valley. The Rhone department banned outdoor public events.
That would make it a 12- to 14-day stretch of extreme heat.
“I would rather just go to the office. At least there is air conditioning there.”
In Montenegro, fire crews aided by military personnel were fighting a blaze around Podgorica for a second day when the water truck flipped, killing the soldier, the defence ministry said in a statement.
Hundreds of soldiers and firefighters were also battling wildfires in Albania, while Greece has requested EU assistance to battle more than 100 wildfires stoked by fierce winds and dry conditions on its territory.
More than half (52 percent) of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was hit by drought in July for the fourth consecutive month, according to an AFP analysis of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data.
Drought levels in the region are the highest on record for the month of July since data collection began in 2012, exceeding the 2012-2024 average by 21 percent - AFP
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