As the European heat wave continues, some countries continue the battle of forests – the national

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal and Greece continued the battle forest fires Friday, on a public holiday in all three countries, where dry dry conditions challenged reserve efforts.

Spain was fighting 14 major fires, according to Verginia Barberb, Director General of Emergency Services. It was expected to climb temperatures during the weekend.

“Today it will be a very difficult day, with a severe risk of new fires,” said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on X.

The National Weather Agency has warned of the extreme risk of fire in most countries, including as the largest fire was burning in the north and west. It is expected that temperatures exceeding 40 ° C (104 Fahrenheit) will continue to a temperature that brought temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in several days until Monday.

The fires in the Galicia region forced the closure of many highways. The high -speed railway that connects it to the capital of Spain, Madrid, remained commenting.

The fires in Spain this year were burned 158,000 hectares or 610 square miles, according to the European Union fire information system. This is a large area like Metropolitan London.

In both Spain and Portugal, it was the Assumption Day, a major Catholic holiday that is usually characterized by family gatherings and religious processions.

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In Portugal, nearly 4,000 firefighters were fighting fires on Friday. Seven main fires were active. The authorities extended the state of alert until Sunday, amid high temperatures that are expected to continue until the weekend.

A burning in Greece in Greece is burned out of control of the fourth day on the island of Chews, which prompted many evacuation overnight.

There were two aircraft aircraft and a helicopter operating in the north of the island in the eastern Aegean Sea, where the local authorities said that calm in the strong winds helps firefighters early on Friday.

After a series of large fires in western Greece earlier this week, the firefighting service was on Friday alert outside Athens and the nearby areas in the south of the country, where the harmful weather conditions raised the danger of the fire.

The spiritual leader of the Ecumenical Patriarch in the world, Patholomeo, expressed his solidarity on Friday with the victims of forest fires in southern Europe during a prayer for the intention of the Virgin Mary, an important religious holiday for Orthodox Christians.

–Ap Derek Gatopoulos writer from Athens.

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