Forest fires in southern Europe leave 3 dead, thousands of displaced – patriotic

Forest fires intensified throughout southern Europe on Wednesday after a few battle at night to protect the third largest city in Greece, with at least three other 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 exploded behind the residential blocs 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 Vasilis Vaqrakoyeanis, a fire service spokesman.

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.

Fire fighting resources were thin in many affected countries as they fought multiple outbreaks after weeks of heat waves and high temperature across the Mediterranean. On the Greek island of Chews, exhausted firefighters sleep on the side of the road after a night turned.

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 Coca region, near the Greek border, explosions of artillery shells were reported in World War II buried. 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, northern Madrid, where thousands were displaced due to evacuation.

“The forest fires are still dangerous, and additional precautions are necessary,” Sanchez wrote in an online post. “Thank you, again, for all those who work tirelessly to fight the fire.”

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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 try to protect them from the fire.

The government raised the level of national emergency response, and prepared additional support for the regional authorities that oversee multiple evacuations and the closure of highways.

Officials said the forest worker was killed on Wednesday while responding to the wild fires in southern Türkiye. 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 recovers from the huge modern fires in the southern regions, it was expected that temperatures up to 42 ° C (108 Fahrenheit) 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.

The authorities in all parts of the European countries were martyred with multiple reasons for huge fires, 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, Skopje 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. “In the Black Mountain Resources we have … it is clear that it is not enough.” – Simini from Tirana, Albania. Suman Nishhadham contributed in Madrid, Andrew Wilkes in Istanbul, Selfie Corbett in Paris, and Konstantin Titridis in Scopji, Northern Macedonia.

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