Forest fires spread throughout Europe

Forest fires erupted in several European countries, including Greece and Turkey, while France is struggling in its southern regions multiple fires in the wake of a long free wave.

In Türkiye, which suffers from drought, the firefighters faced more than 600 fire last week, as the authorities announced the death of a forest worker as a result of his injury while putting out fire in the coastal province of Izmir.

The Minister of Agriculture and Forests, Ibrahim Daykli, announced on the X platform, that the fire was controlled last Friday evening, along with six other fires, most of which are in western Türkiye and central.

However, the firefighters are still trying to control a fire in the southern coastal coastal area of ​​Hatay, near the Syrian border.

Türkiye has largely survived the recent heat waves that swept southern Europe, but the strong winds increased the outbreak of forest fires.

The French Meteorological Authority announced that the intense heat wave that started on June 19 and lasted 16 days officially ended on Friday, the same period of the heat wave that struck the country in 2003.

On the same day, the first major fires this year erupted in the south of the country, as well as in the Bush de Ron and Herulte provinces, prompting the authorities to close parts of a major highway during the weekend and the holiday season.

Traffic bottlenecks reached 10 kilometers in each direction on the A9 highway, as the water was distributed to the passengers stranded under the burning sun.

In Merival, near the southern city of Montpellier, a fire brought by the strong winds, the firefighters, to evacuate about 10 people.

“It was very frightening, especially between four in the evening and sixth in the evening, the air was unbearable and caused difficulty breathing, and there is a lot of smoke in the village so that we no longer see anything, along with the presence of ashes falling from the sky,” said Lauriet Gargo, 46, a resident of the village.

In Greece, a 52 -year -old man was arrested on the island of Evia, on charges of causing the fire that came to a large part of the island last Friday evening and Saturday morning.

The official “ART” channel reported that the man was removing herbs from a plot of land when the fire broke out and quickly dominated, at a time when the firefighters tried to put out a forest fire near IPRA, on the island of Crete.