The forest fire situation in France is intensifying. In the southern part of the Gironde department, an area of four times the size of the capital Paris has so far burned down. The flames are approaching the city of Bordeaux at a rapid pace. The metropolis with over 270,000 inhabitants is threatened with evacuation. The situation in Spain is no less dramatic. 167,000 people in the Gironde department in the south-west of the country had already t…