At least 3 cases of forest deaths were reported throughout southern Europe

Forest fires intensified throughout southern Europe on Wednesday, with a clock battle to protect the third largest city in Greece and at least three deaths in Spain, Turkey and Albania.

Outside the Greek Portras city, firefighters have struggled to protect homes and agricultural facilities with a toil through pine forests and olive groves. The long columns of fire rose behind residential blocks on the outskirts of the city, while dozens of vehicles were burned while the fire was swept through a lot of reservation.

“Today is another very difficult day with a level of the remaining fire risks very high in many parts of the country,” said Fire Service spokesman Vasilis Vatracoyenes. He said that at least 15 firefighters were transferred to the hospital or received medical attention due to burns, inhalation of smoke or fatigue.

When the planes and helicopters that landed the water pounced, the residents joined the effort, hit the fire with cut branches or avoided the replacements of the water.

Resources spanned thin

Fire fighting resources were extended in many affected countries, fighting multiple outbreaks after weeks of heat waves and temperature rise throughout the Mediterranean region. On the Greek island of Chews, exhausted firefighters sleep on the side of the road after a seizure during the night.

The planes revolve between fires on the Greek -Western mainland, the Patras region and the island of Zakinthus. Athens also sent assistance to the neighboring Albania, where she joined an international effort to combat dozens of forest fires. Officials said on Wednesday that a 80 -year -old man died in a fire south of the capital, Tirana.

The residents of four villages were evacuated in central Albania near the former army ammunition depot. In the southern Koka region, near the Greek border, explosions were reported from artillery shells during the reign of World War II. The authorities said that dozens of homes were destroyed in the middle area of the country.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed his condolences after the death of a volunteer in firefighting in the Castel and Lyon, north of the capital, Madrid, where thousands were displaced due to evacuation.

The evacuation centers were filled with the ability in parts of central Spain, with some outdoor spending on a folding family. The most intense fires north pushed more rural areas, where some residents made the walls of their homes to protect them from fire.

The government railway company, Renv, said that the services along the high -speed rail link between Madrid and the northwest of Galicia were suspended after the fires approached some sections of the tracks.

In Türkiye, a forest worker was killed on Wednesday while he was responding to a huge fire in a southern area. The Ministry of Forests said that the worker died in an accident that included a fire truck that left four others.

Türkiye has been fighting severe forest fires since late June. A total of 18 people were killed, including 10 rescue volunteers and forest workers who died in July.

In France, which is recovering from the last huge fires in the southern regions, the temperatures were expected to reach 42 degrees Celsius on the third day in a row. Officials issued weather alerts, giving local authorities a discretionary authority to cancel public events and surrounding areas with high risk of fire.

To the southwest of France, the Civil Protection Service said that a fire in Tranokoso, Portugal, which has been burning since Saturday, was overnight after Litening has returned a region believed to be safe.

The authorities in all parts of European countries were martyred with multiple fire reasons, including neglected agricultural practices, incorrectly preserved energy cables and summer lightning storms.

Law enforcement officials in Northern Macedonia were also martyred indicators of intentional burning, motivated by the rogue developers. Firefighters struggled to contain the fire in a natural reserve outside the capital, Scopy, on Wednesday.

The European Union rushed to assist in the countries damaged by the fire, including non -member countries, with the ground crews and planes that drop the water. A lot of the last effort focused on Montenegro, as the main forest fires continued to combustion in rough areas near the capital, Bodweka.

“Natural disasters do not know any limits,” said Le Pen Tamousic, head of the Civil Protection Agency at Montenegro. “On Montenegro, the resources we have … clearly not enough.”