France sent two teams of 100 firefighters, who were “currently arriving,” Virginia Barcones Sanz, the director general of civil protection and emergencies in Spain, told reporters on Monday. Germany is deploying a team of 66 firefighters with 21 vehicles, while Finland is sending 30 firefighters, she said.

Two firefighters have been killed in Spain and Portugal, the authorities said on Monday, as wildfires ravage the Iberian peninsula during a sweltering heatwave. Both victims died in road accidents, taking the death toll to two in Portugal and four in Spain since the fires broke out in recent weeks.

Spain has sent 500 more troops to fight raging wildfires, bringing the total deployed to 1,900, as the death toll from the blazes has risen to four. On Sunday, a firefighter died after an accident during firefighting efforts when his truck fell down a steep hill,