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Nearly 300 personnel, along with dozens of aircraft and ground vehicles, are battling the flames. No casualties have been reported, but thousands have been evacuated. Low humidity, high winds, and scorching temperatures are fueling the fires. Authorities have issued warnings against lighting outdoor fires due to heightened wildfire risks. Over the past week, Turkey has faced more than 130 fires, with five still raging.
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Greece is still on high fire alert as temperatures are set to reach 40 degrees Celcius across the nation. That’s despite the majority of wildfires, which started on Sunday, having been extinguished. The blazes left a trail of devastation, forcing thousands to be evacuated and leaving one woman dead. The ongoing extreme weather, coupled with strong winds has left authorities on high alert, especially around Athens, where firefighters are continuing to battle scattered fires. In the hugely popular tourist destination, many people have raised concerns about the safety of visiting Greece while the...
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Wildfires that broke out in the Tjentište valley in southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina have spread to the Sutjeska National Park, putting the centuries-old coniferous forest at risk, authorities said. Around 150 hectares of forest and pasture in one of Bosnia’s oldest national parks were ablaze on Monday, according to the park's director, Zoran Čančar. By Tuesday, the fire had spread and could endanger the road between the nearby town of Foča and Gacko in the country's south, according to domestic press. Authorities have also warned that the wildfires pose a serious risk of ecological and mat...
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Part of a hotel in a western German town has collapsed, leaving two people dead and several others trapped in the wreckage, authorities said on Wednesday. Fourteen people were in the hotel in Kröv when one story of the building collapsed at about 11 pm CET on Tuesday. Police said five were able to get out of the building unhurt because they weren't in the part that collapsed, but others were trapped. A rescue operation is ongoing, but reaching them is proving difficult because the collapse of one story left two ceilings lying on top of each other, according to Joerg Teusch, fire and disaster p...
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A wildfire on the island of Evia in southern Greece rages on, with nearby communtiies evacuated and more than 200 firefighters on-site. A fire official has called it one of the most dangerous fires of the season so far. Greece's wildfire season is getting longer with each year, in part due to extreme heat caused by human-caused climate change. Evia was struck by massive wildfires in 2021 and also suffered extensive damage last summer. Greece has already tackled hundreds of fires this summer, with the government saying they were bracing for a particularly difficult fire season. Evia wildfire: W...
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Albanian authorities enter a third week of fighting fires that have been raging through the country. The blazes were predominantly located in southern Albania but have made their way up to the country’s north. Three new fires were reported in the northeastern district of Diber, as well as another fire in the central Albanian district of Elbasan. Earlier last week, Albanian Interior Minister Taulant Balla confirmed that the government asked for help from the European Commission’s Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC). He states that the remote mountainous areas were impossible to reach ...
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Soldiers and firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire that erupted in Albania's south on Monday. The wildfire started as an isolated incident in the mountains, but within two hours, it posed a danger to residents in the villages of Frashtan, Gorica and Dropull. Minister of Defence Niko Peleshi said on Tuesday that authorities are working to manage the blaze under the coordination of the National Agency of Civil Protection. The fire is currently controlled and does not threaten residents and their homes, but it has yet to be extinguished. Experts say human-induced climate change is resp...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - This year's ferocious wildfires on the US West Coast are taking a heavy toll on exhausted firefighters who see no end in sight to the blazes, with the coronavirus pandemic adding another layer of risk.For Darrell Roberts, a 20-year veteran firefighter in California, the more than two dozen major wildfires raging across the state and the unprecedented scale of the blazes are a stark reminder of climate change and the new normal."When resources are stripped thin and literally every firefighter is out on the frontlines, and you have firefighters coming from all over the US and...
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