Izmir, villages in Turkiye are affected by forest fires now under control Climate crisis news

Three died as Blaze continued anger in the southern coastal area of ​​Dortyol in Hatay County, which borders Syria.

A forest worker who was wounded in a fire in the western Turkish province died in Izmir, as a result of his wounds, as the number of deaths in the last days of fires was raised to three, as the fire was brought in the villages of Audimis Province, but the emergency crew continued to fight one in the province of Syria.

On Friday, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Ibrahim Dayley said, along with six individuals in the West, that the worker Rajab Sahin “was injured while fighting the fire in Audimis and was being treated in the hospital.”

He added that the firefighters were still trying to control the fire in the southern coastal area of ​​the Portol in Hatay Province.

Turkiye has mostly unprecedented incendiary heat waves that swept the rest of the southern Europe, but firefighters fought more than 600 fires since June 26 in the drought -affected nation, which was pushed by the strong winds.

The fire in Audimis, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Ezmer, was on Thursday. killing A 81 -year -old man and a rear operator who died while helping fire control efforts.

In a video on X, the mayor of Odemis Mustafa Turn said that the fire had destroyed about 5,000 hectares (12400 acres) of the ground. “The fire came violently to this area, and nothing remains to burn. About 5,000 hectares were reduced to ashes,” Turan said.

On Monday, rescuers evacuated more than 50,000 people to escape from a series of fires.

“According to the authorities, the four -day fires began in the village of Tosunlar … You can still see smoke coming out of this evacuated village,” said Cosmoglu from the island.

“Nothing remains in this village, no one lives here and there is nothing to remain. After the fires erupted due to the electric cables in this village, they quickly spread to the villages near this side and then to other villages. On the first night (of forest fires), the authorities added the evacuation of five villages.”

“For Turkish citizens who live in valleys and forests, life has become more difficult every year as climate change brings more forest fires. This year, forest fires came earlier than what was expected to be envisaged,” said Kosoglu.

Turkiye sends help to Syria

Meanwhile, in the Hatay Province, which borders Syria, the emergency crews continued to fight the fire that broke out on Friday afternoon in the Dortuol area near a residential area and intensified quickly due to the strong winds.

Governor Mustafa Musatley said that about 920 homes were evacuated as a preventive measure against advanced fire.

Turkiye also sent two firefighting planes on Saturday to help fighting fires in neighboring Syria in the northwest Latakia region.

Eleven fire and vehicles were sent to support water, according to Raid Salih, the Syrian Minister of Emergency Management and Disaster Management.

The Minister of Interior in Turki, Ali Yerlikaya, said that 44 suspects were detained in relation to 65 fires that broke out throughout the country, which led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and damaged about 200 homes.

According to the website of European Forest Information System (EFFIS), there were 96 fires in Turkiye this year that destroyed more than 49652 hectares (122,700 acres) from Earth.

Experts say that a person’s climate change causes more frequent, intensive forest fires and other natural disasters, and has warned Turki against taking measures to address the problem.