Europe on fire, fires spread across the continent/ Hundreds of people evacuated from Croatian and Greek resorts
Record heat and drought that scientists attribute to climate change have created ideal conditions for wildfires across Europe this summer, particularly in France, Spain and Greece. The Balkan region has also experienced several heat waves.
Local residents and tourists described scenes of chaos as they fled in their cars from a fire outside Omis, a picturesque town on Croatia's prized Dalmatian coast, surrounded by trees and rocky hills.
In northern Greece, people wearing face masks, some with children or pets in their arms, boarded boats and rafts in the coastal town of Siviri as a fire engulfed a forest and columns of smoke turned the cloudless sky dark gray. The coast guard said more than 300 people had been evacuated by boat from the town, which is located on a peninsula of forests, olive groves and beaches south of Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki.
Fires in Britain and Wales have reached a record high for the second year in a row, fuelled by five heatwaves this summer, Phil Garrigan, chairman of the National Fire Chiefs Council, told Reuters on Friday.
In France, authorities evacuated 525 people from the village of Luglon after a large fire broke out in the southwestern Landes region, not far from an area already devastated by major blazes this summer.
An even bigger fire in Huelva, in southern Spain, has so far burned 31,000 hectares and forced the evacuation of 700 people.
Firefighting aircraft in Spain have flown more than 8,200 hours so far this year, surpassing the number of hours flown in 2025.
The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service warned of "very extreme" conditions across a large area of central and eastern Europe, with additional areas over southern Britain, Ireland, northern France and southern Sweden, in its forecast for the week to August 19.
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