Firefighters around Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Balqan were fighting forest fires on Tuesday, with another heat wave that pushes temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius across parts of Europe.
Scientists say global warming gives the Mediterranean region more hot, a more drier summer, as scientists say, with forest fires every year and sometimes wanders in “rotation”.
“We are cooking alive, this cannot continue,” said Alexander Favayus.
On the outskirts of the Spanish capital in Madrid, a fire was killed in a stable horse and reached some homes and farms, but the regional authorities said that he was contained on Tuesday.
A man also died in a fire in Albania, while a 61 -year -old seasonal worker was suspected of heat -related reasons while picking fruit in Lyda, in the East Catalonia region of Spain.
The Ministry of Defense said that in the mountainous Cottis area of Montenegro, northeast of the capital, Bodgorica, an army soldier was killed and another was seriously wounded when the water tanks they were working in.
In Tariva, in the far south of the Iberian Peninsula, the pioneers of the famous beach and chef Jose Andres photographed fire and black smoke on the hills over the white villas.
Officials said more than 2000 people were evacuated from there because the fire – which was believed to have begun in the forests of the eucalyptus and the two – spread. A helicopter hit the fire with sea water.
The authorities in Albania, Montenegro, Germany, Spain, Italy and France issued various types of heat warnings.
In Spain, temperatures reached 44 degrees Celsius in some areas, according to AEMET meteor service, with minimal rain and wind conditions that are expected to exacerbate the risk of fire.
Spanish military steps
The Ministry of Interior in Spain has put national services to be prepared, while nearly 1,000 members of the armed forces are already supporting fire control efforts.
The railway operator in the country said that the trains between northwest of Galicia and Madrid had stopped due to a fire.
The burning temperatures across Spain raised many forest fires, including one near the Las Villas National Park. There, firefighters forced to retreat, after conditions created gunfire and fire courses. Hundreds of people in the villages were forced to leave their homes.
In the largest area in Spain, Castile and Lyon fought more than 1,200 firefighters, 32 forest fires on Tuesday and thousands of people were told to leave their homes.
Meanwhile, the police said that they arrested a firefighter near the northwestern city of Avila, after he confessed to a fire began two weeks ago because of the potential income of the work that his extinguishing will take.
In northern Portugal, more than 1,300 firefighters were supported by 16 aircraft fighting three large fires. One of them, in the Vila Real area, was burning for 10 days.
“10 days have passed since our population is in a state of panic, without knowing when the fire will knock on their door.”
In Albania, spaces of forests and agricultural lands were burned due to forest fires last week, and 30 separate fires lasted in strong winds.
The Ministry of Defense said that four helicopters of the army and 80 soldiers were helping firefighters. I also mentioned the death of a man suspected of began a fire in the backyard that spread in a wider area.
On the adjacent black mountain, the authorities -backed by helicopters from Serbia and Croatia contained a huge fire near Podgorica on Tuesday, with the head of the capital smoke. In Gornja VRBICA, the population helped firefighters prevent fire from reaching the local church and the cemetery, according to Pobjeda Daily.
It was expected to have more help from Austria, Slovenia and Italy in light of the Civil Protection Mechanism in the European Union.
“All that can be paid and buy, but the memories that were burned in these four rooms and the attic cannot be compensated,” Drina Fukovic, whose house in southeast Bayberry has been reduced to the ruins of Reuters.
“Out of control”
In Greece, at the southern end of Europe, forest fires in some cases forced that the stormy winds that were made to evacuate many villages and a hotel in the tourist islands in Zakinthus and Sepalonia in the ion sea with four other parts of the mainland.
A fire in the South Greek region of Achia forced the residents of five villages near an industrial area to flee, while 85 firefighters and 10 fire aircraft tried to reach homes near the western city of Vonitsa.
The image was similar in Türkiye, where a large fire was burned in the northwestern Kanakali province for the second day, which led to the evacuation of hundreds of residents.
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