Thousands of firemen are battling flames in Portugal, Spain, and southwestern France, where a heatwave is raging.<br /><br />A pilot perished in northern Portugal when his waterbombing jet crashed near the Spanish border in the Foz Coa area.<br /><br />Around 2,300 people were forced to flee a wildfire in the Mijas hills in southern Spain, near the Costa del Sol.<br /><br />This year, fires have devastated 30,000 hectares (75,000 acres) of land, the most since the summer of 2017, when Portugal had terrible fires that killed 100 people.<br /><br />Because of human-caused climate change, heatwaves have become more common, more intense, and stay longer.<br /><br />Because of human-caused climate change, heatwaves have become more common, more intense, and stay longer.
