Macron Tours Devastated Areas from Wildfires (Photos/Video)

French President Emmanuel Macron visited firefighters battling twin blazes near Bordeaux on Wednesday due to massive wildfires across swathes of southern Europe.

Temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) over previous days have caused destruction across different areas.

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Cooler air swept on Wednesday, bringing relief to people from Portugal to Britain. However, thousands of firefighters went on in their efforts to contain the mass fires that had broken out in multiple countries.

"Our assessment is generally positive. The situation improved overnight," French fire service spokesman Arnaud Mendousse told AFP from the southwestern Gironde region where two huge blazes have engulfed 20,600 hectares (50,900 acres) of tinder-dry forest since last week.

Macron spoke to emergency services members and about 37,000 people have been evacuated in the popular Atlantic Ocean region. The shift in climate is leading to more wildfires and will force France and the European Union to take "structural decisions in the years to come", Macron told reporters.

Government spokesman Olivier Véran revealed that two firefighters were severely injured overnight.

In the same vein, separate blazes in the Monts d'Arree area of northwestern Brittany continued to rage on Wednesday, with aircraft dropping water from above.

Greek planes and helicopters were also in action against a wildfire that has forced hundreds of people to flee mountainside suburbs north of Athens.

Greece had been spared the scorching heatwave experienced in western Europe, but the flames fanned by high winds were threatening the suburbs of Penteli, Pallini, Anthousa, and Gerakas, home to tens of thousands of people.

"The civil protection authority was late in alerting us," a Pallini resident who lost his car and shed to the flames told ERT television. "The fire was scorching our backs, we left in the nick of time. Had we stayed another 30 seconds it would have burned us."