Dozens are dead as at least nine countries in southern Europe and northern Africa are struggling to contain blazes.
In Greece, more than 20,000 people have been evacuated in recent days from homes and hotels as wildfires rage on the island of Rhodes.
At least three people have died so far, including two pilots whose firefighting plane crashed on Tuesday.at least seven people on Tuesday, and wildfires in the south, which have also led to multiple deaths. “While the north was drenched, the heatwave across the south persisted, with temperatures of 47.6°C recorded in the eastern Sicilian city of Catania on Monday,”reported. “The bodies of two people in [their] 70s were found in a house destroyed by the flames, while an 88-year-old woman was found near the Sicilian city of Palermo.”
“Italian firefighters said they tackled nearly 1,400 fires between Sunday and Tuesday, including 650 in Sicily and 390 in Calabria, the southern mainland region where a bedridden 98-year-old man was killed as fire consumed his home,” the newspaper noted. On social media, Sicily’s civil protection minister Nello Musumeci wrote: “We are experiencing in Italy one of the most complicated days in recent decades — rainstorms, tornadoes, and giant hail in the north, and scorching heat and devastating fires in the center and south. The climate upheaval that has hit our country demands of us all… a change of attitude.
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