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Flames Engulf Turkey and Balkans Amid Record Heat and Disaster Declarations
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Flames Engulf Turkey and Balkans Amid Record Heat and Disaster Declarations
Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city on Sunday, forcing more than 3,500 people to flee their homes and leaving two people dead. Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro are also battling blazes fed by unusually high temperatures, dry conditions and strong winds. Overnight fires in the forested mountains surrounding Bursa, in northwest Turkey, spread rapidly, tinting the night sky over the city’s easte…
Meanwhile, at least two major forest fires are raging in the country, foreign news agencies report.
Pompiers fought on Sunday with vegetarian fires in many areas of Turkey, in the context of an extreme heat wave affecting the Mediterranean region. The authorities evacuated over 3,600 people from the found...
A temperature of 50.5 °C was recorded in Silopi, in the southeast, while the country was hit by a large heat wave and forest fires.
Severe heat is making it difficult for firefighters to fight at least two major forest fires. More fires are also burning in Serbia.
Turkey has been struggling with extreme heat and forest fires for days. More than a thousand emergency workers have been deployed to fight the blazes.
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