Greece and Turkey have been battling devastating blazes for nearly two weeks as the region suffers its worst heatwave in decades.
Greek officials have already blamed climate change for the extreme heat, and the UN released a major report on Monday showing how the threat from warming is even more acute than previously thought.
Serbian firefighters use a water hose to extinguish the burning blaze of a forest fire in the village of Glatsona on Evia island, on August 9, 2021. - Firefighters tried on August 9, to prevent fires from reaching key communities and a thick forest that could fuel an inferno that one official said has destroyed hundreds of homes in seven days on the Greek island of Evia.
In the town of Aidipsos, collections of basic necessities were organised for villagers who had lost everything in the fire.While rain brought some respite from the blazes in Turkey over the weekend, Greece has this month suffered an intense heatwave that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said should show the hard reality of climate change even to doubters.
The response was needed"as multiple fires affect several countries simultaneously", EU crisis management commissioner Janez Lenarcic said.
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