The blazes are being fed by hot swirling winds from a searing heat wave broiling much of Europe, with temperatures above 100 degrees.
Britain’s first-ever extreme heat warning is in effect for large parts of England as authorities prepare for record temperatures in the triple digits.Three additional water-dropping planes were joining six others already making repeated runs over the flames and dense clouds of smoke, the French Interior Ministry said Sunday night.
Spain reported a second fatality in two days as it battled wildfires. The body of a 69-year-old sheep farmer was found Monday in the same hilly area where a 62-year-old firefighter died a day earlier when he was trapped by flames in northwestern Zamora province. More than 30 forest fires around Spain have forced the evacuation of thousands of people and blackened 85 square miles of forest and scrub.
“I left my country under fire, literally under fire,” said Teresa Ribera, Spain’s minister for ecological transition, as she attended talks on climate change in Berlin. According to Spain’s Carlos III Institute, which records daily temperature-related fatalities, 237 deaths were attributed to high temperatures from July 10-14. That compared with 25 temperature-related deaths the previous week.
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