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At least 3 dead and thousands displaced as wildfires rage across southern Europe
- A severe heatwave is gripping southern and central Europe in August 2025, with temperatures soaring above 40C in France, Spain, and Greece while wildfires spread across multiple countries.
- This heatwave is part of a pattern where Europe's temperature increase since the 1980s has been occurring at double the rate of the global average, contributing to unprecedented drought conditions and heightened wildfire threats.
- Authorities ordered evacuations of thousands in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Albania, deployed nearly 1,000 soldiers, and closed Turkey's Dardanelles Strait for firefighting aircraft operations.
- The crisis caused at least one man to die from burns over 98% of his body in Spain and a child to die of heatstroke in Italy, with dozens hospitalized from smoke exposure.
- These conditions underscore Europe's vulnerability to climate change, as scientists warn that warming intensifies heat, dryness, and longer wildfire seasons across the Mediterranean.
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In southern Europe, devastating forest fires continue to rage. Greece and Albania in particular are affected, where entire villages and livelihoods lie in rubble and ashes. In Albania, 14 people have already been arrested for alleged arson.
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Independent EspañolBy The Associated Press Wildfires are burning across Europe, displacing thousands of people, as planes and helicopters drop water from the air and residents join the effort, battling the blazes with cut branches or dousing them with buckets of water. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Greece, Portugal and Spain were fighting this my rcoles against forest fires, fueled by an intense and prolonged heat wave.
Thousands evacuate as deadly heat creates monstrous wildfire: 'Many still underestimate the danger'
Yet another summer heat wave has been scorching broad swaths of Europe, resulting in deadly wildfires across the continent, the Guardian reported. The blazes have forced the evacuation of thousands of people in multiple countries. "Thanks to climate change, we now live in a significantly warmer world," Akshay Deoras of the University of Reading's meteorology department told Agence France-Press, per the Guardian. Despite this, "many still underes…
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