Firefighting teams are trying to contain the fires in France and Spain, while the London authorities announced the alert in response to the fires, after the temperature recorded a record high.
Al-Jazeera correspondent confirmed the outbreak of simultaneous fires in the north of Spain, where the authorities are pushing more firefighting teams to the Zamora region, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that "climate change is killing people ... and also destroying our ecosystem and our biodiversity."
Al-Jazeera correspondent in France said that the firefighting teams are implementing emergency measures in the La Gironde region (southwest of France) by razing areas of forest to prevent the spread of fires.
In Portugal, more than 1,400 firefighters continued their efforts to put out fires in the center and north of the country on Tuesday morning.
Britain's fires
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the heat wave had caused a massive fire outbreak after temperatures in the city rose to 40 degrees Celsius, exceeding the previous record of 38.7 degrees Celsius, which was set at the Cambridge Botanic Garden on 25 July. 2019.
Khan had said on Monday that the city authorities had declared a state of alert, in response to the high number of fires in the capital.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would take several years before Britain could fully modernize its infrastructure to deal with the high temperatures, after at least two runways showed signs of damage and some train tracks twisted.
Massive fires around London (Getty Images)
He added - in an interview with the BBC - saying, "We see a great deal of disruption in travel. The infrastructure, much of which dates back to the Victorian era, was not built to withstand these kinds of temperatures."
The government was accused of dealing recklessly with the heat wave, and outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson was criticized for his absence from an emergency meeting on this crisis on Sunday, preferring to attend a farewell party at his residence.
The medical community also condemned comments by Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, who called on the British to "enjoy the sun".
In Italy, a heat wave continues for the second week, raising temperatures in several cities in the country to more than 40 degrees Celsius, which led to fires.
The Met Office considered the temperature now recorded to be the hottest in Italy's history.
In southwestern France, the grape-growing Gironde region witnessed the biggest forest fires in more than 30 years, and authorities said a man had been arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting a fire.
In the Netherlands, which recorded the highest temperature this year on Monday at 35.4 degrees Celsius, the temperature is expected to reach 39 degrees this afternoon.
In turn, Germany is also exposed to this heat wave.
In Lower Saxony (northwest), the temperature is expected to record 40 degrees today, approaching the maximum of 42.6 degrees recorded in this region in the summer of 2019, according to data from the German Meteorological Service.
Belgium is also preparing to record potentially record temperatures, with the heat wave that scientists attribute to climate change heading north and east.
The European Commission said yesterday that half of the European Union is at risk of drought due to the prolonged decline of rains, which is likely to reduce agricultural yields in countries such as France, Romania, Spain, Portugal and Italy.