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Fires continue to burn throughout southern Europe among the ongoing thermal wave, which complicates the restriction of fires, while the temperature will rise on weekends.
Spain fights with 14 large fires, according to Virginia Barconon, General Director for Emergency Situations.
“Today will be a very difficult day again, with an extraordinary risk of new fires,” Prime Minister -Spain Pedro Sanchez wrote on X.
Three people died in Spain from fires, including two voluntary firefighters. Sanchez expressed his support to the family of the second volunteer who died in Leon’s hospital after serious burns.
The Aemet National Weather Service warned about the emergency risk of fires in most countries, including the regions where there are large fires. Heat that brought the temperature This exceeded 40 degrees Celsius It is expected to last until Monday.
Fires in the Galicia area led to the closure of many highways. The line with a high speed of the railway connecting it with the capital of Spain, Madrid, also remained closed.
Fires in Spain this year burned 158,000 hectares of landAccording to the European information system of the Forest Fire of the European Union. This area is about the same as the metropolitan London.
The first death from fires in Portugal
In Portugal, about 4000 firefighters fought with fires on Friday. Seven large fires were active. The authorities expanded the situation with the alarm by Sunday, as it is expected that high temperatures will last until the weekend.
In the Garda region, the lack of resources makes efforts to suppress flame. Fires spread to neighboring Pinel and Tramus municipalities.
In the village of Alverka da Beyra, the flame arrived in an abandoned house. Concern for other neighboring houses forced dozens of people to try to extinguish the fire with their means.
On Saturday, the charred corpse of the former franca villa was found, now, which makes itThe first dead forest fires affecting the country this summer.
The Portuguese government on Friday turned to the EU civil defense mechanism on Friday for help, which could attract fire brigades that European countries can call. One day earlier, Spain received two hydrobatic Canadair aircraft after she first turned to the EU for help.
Last week, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Albania also turned for help to the EU fire fighting in the fight against forest fires. The force has already been activated this year as many times as in the last year’s fire department.
New evacuation teams were released in Greece
On Friday, the forest fire in Greece was uncontrolled on the fourth day on the island of Khios, which led to several other night emissions.
Two planes that threw water, and two helicopters worked in the northern part of the island in the East Aegean Sea, where local authorities said that the recession of strong winds helped firefighters on Friday.
After a series of large fires in Western Greece, at the beginning of this week, the fire service was guarded outside of Athens and nearby areas south of the country, where adverse weather conditions increased the risk of fire.
Firefighters in Turkey also continued to encounter fires in various provinces, and many of them seemed to be largely limited to Saturday.
Scientists say that climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of heat and drought in some parts of Europe, which makes the region more vulnerable to fires.
The burning of fossil fuel, such as carbon and gas, releases thermal gases, which are the main factor in climate change.
According to the EU climate change service, Europe was heated twice as soon as on average in the world since the 1980s.
The EU monitoring service states that 2024 was the warmest year, registered both around the world and in Europe, which spent the second place in the size of the “thermal stress” days.