She fights thermal wave obstacles against forest fires in Spain, Portugal and Greece

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal and Greece fought the continuous forest fires on Friday, an important religious holiday in all three countries, as the dry dry conditions were stabbed in the efforts made to contain fire.

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. The heat wave, which brought temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius, will continue for several days this month, 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, according to the European Union fire information system. This is a large area like Metropolitan London.

Forest fires erupted on Friday, when many European countries celebrated a religious holiday dedicated to the Virgin Mary, known in the Catholic countries such as Spain and Portugal as the Assumption Day.

Thousands of firefighters fighting Portugal fires

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, when high temperatures were expected to continue during the weekend.

On Friday, the Portuguese government requested assistance from the European Union’s civil protection mechanism, a force to combat fires that the needy European countries can call. One day ago, Spain received two planes from the Canadair Water launcher after seeking assistance in the European Union to treat fire for the first time.

Last week, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Albania also requested the help of the European Union fire control force to deal with forest fires. The force has already been activated several times this year, such as the firefighting season last year.

On Friday, a fire in Greece in Greece was burned out of control of the fourth day on the island of Chews, which prompted many evacuations 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, the Batterians Bartholomeo, expressed his solidarity on Friday with the victims of forest fires in southern Europe during the prayers on an important day as well as Orthodox Christians known as the Virgin Mary Dubai.

Scientists say climate change increases the frequency, intensity of heat and dehydration in parts of Europe, making the region more vulnerable to health effects and forest fires.

Burning fossil fuels such as coal and gas releases gases that are a major engine for climate change.

Europe has been rising by bounce as soon as possible in the global average since the 1980s, according to the service of climate change in Copernicus in the European Union.

The European Union Observatory says that the year 2024 was the most important year at the global level and in Europe, which witnessed the second largest number of “thermal stress”.