"Our thoughts are with the injured and all residents," he wrote on X. "It's very striking - apocalyptic even," Monique Baillard, a resident of the town, told Reuters news agency. She said many of her neighbours had already left. Some 2,000 hectares have burnt, local officials said.Wildfires were also reported in other parts of Europe, including the Catalonia region of north-east Spain, where more than 18,000 people were ordered to stay at home on Tuesday because of a wildfire in the eastern province of Tarragona.Emergency units were deployed alongside 300 firefighters as high winds overnight fanned the flames, which have spread across nearly 3,000 hectares (7,413 acres) of land.Several other parts of Spain - which experienced its hottest June on record - were on high alert for wildfires.In Greece, some 41 wildfires broke out across the country on Monday. Of those, 34 were contained early while seven remained active into Monday evening, according to the fire service.Wildfires are often highly complex, involving multiple factors, which make it difficult to know if climate change has caused or worsened a specific wildfire.However, climate change increases the risk of hot and dry weather, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found, which can lead to wildfires.