A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames spreading through tinder-dry forests.
A firefighter walks among flames at a forest fire near Louchats, 35 kms from Landiras in Gironde, southwestern France, Monday, July 18, 2022. France scrambled more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to combat spreading wildfires that were being fed Monday by hot swirling winds from a searing heat wave broiling much of Europe.
In France, heat records were broken and swirling hot winds complicated firefighting in the country's southwest. Passengers on a train through Zamora got a frightening, close look at a blaze, when their train halted in the countryside. Video of the unscheduled — and unnerving — stop showed about a dozen passengers in a railcarheat waves are more intense
Teresa Ribera, Spain’s minister for ecological transition, described her country as “literally under fire” as sheShe warned of “terrifying prospects still for the days to come" — after more than 10 days of temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius , cooling only moderately at night.At least 748 heat-related deaths have been reported in the heat wave in Spain and neighboring Portugal, where temperatures reached 47 C earlier this month.
“Forty-one isn’t off the cards,” said Met Office CEO Penelope Endersby. “We’ve even got some 43s in the model, but we’re hoping it won’t be as high as that.”
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