On Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron will visit the region of southern France where firefighters are battling major blazes. 

His summer residence is only an hour's drive from the village of Gonfaron, where emergency services are fighting what the fire service described as a "huge" and "very fierce" blaze. 

The fires are burning near the popular Mediterranean resort of St Tropez. Thousands of people have been moved to safety from holiday parks. They were housed overnight in municipal facilities such as sports centers. 

One campsite in the village of Grimaud completely burned down. Nearly 1,000 firefighters have been mobilized to try to contain the blazes, which are concentrated about 100km north of the port city Toulon. 
 

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Southeast France, with its sparkling Mediterranean coastline, famous lavender fields and gorge-scarred hinterland, draws thousands of French and overseas tourists each summer. The region is bathed in sunshine for most of the summer but the hot and arid weather means wildfires in July and August are a regular occurrence. 

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin will also visit the area on Tuesday. There have been no deaths recorded so far but dozens of people are being treated for smoke inhalation. 
 

Greece continues to battle blazes 

Fire-service helicopters have been dropping water onto the blazes that are still ravaging Greece. Residents from three villages southeast of the capital, Athens, have been ordered to move to safety to escape the fires. 
The country has been hit hard in recent weeks by fires that have destroyed homes and forests across more than 100,000 hectares of affected land. 

Spanish firefighters helped by cooler temperatures 

Nearly 1,000 firefighters have been backed up by 15 water-dropping aircraft to battle a blaze burning since Saturday morning in the Avila province, 110km west of the capital Madrid. On August 16, temperatures dropped from the 47 degrees Celsius that was recorded two days earlier and the Spanish firefighting teams were also helped by falling winds. 
 

Morocco faces fires after heatwave 

Across the Gibraltar Strait, Moroccan authorities are battling blazes as well. The North African country has suffered from temperatures approaching 50 degrees Celsius.

Firefighting planes are being used to tackle the blazes, which have destroyed some 200 hectares of forest. No fatalities have been recorded yet in Morocco but last week at least 90 people died in fires in neighboring Algeria.