"It's hot, very, very hot here."
A Portuguese journalist found himself in the middle of the flames while driving on a highway near Aveiro, Portugal.
He managed to come out unscathed despite the smoke and the heat.
13,000 hectares of forest went up in smoke in less than a week.
"We've had enough, it lasted all night," said a resident of Ourém, in central Portugal.
The country has been plagued by several fires since July 8 and has mobilized more than 2,000 firefighters.
The toll is one dead and sixty injured.
The scorching temperatures, around 45°C in certain regions of the country, and the violent winds favor the outbreak of fires and make them difficult to control for the firefighters.
In these periods of high heat and drought, several countries, particularly in southern Europe, are currently battling fires.
In France, in Gironde more than 7500 hectares of forest burned, in Spain more than 4000 hectares.
In Morocco, 500 families were evacuated to the north of the country.