Europe Heatwave: Fires ravage French forests near Atlantic as continent heats up | Photos
2 years, 5 months ago

Europe Heatwave: Fires ravage French forests near Atlantic as continent heats up | Photos

India TV News  

Highlights The French wildfires were among several scorching different areas of Europe this week Spain, Croatia and Hungary have also fought wildfires this week We are living through an exceptionally harsh season, French President Macron said Europe Heatwave: Challenged by high temperatures and strong winds, 1,000 firefighters and 10 water-dumping planes struggled Friday to contain two wildfires in the Bordeaux region of southwestern France that have forced the evacuation of 11,300 people and ravaged pine forests near the Atlantic coast. Image Source : APThis photo provided Friday July 15, 2022 by the fire brigade of the Gironde region shows a firefighter truck spraying liquid on a forest wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Thursday, July 14, 2022. Image Source : APThis photo provided Friday July 15, 2022 by the fire brigade of the Gironde region shows a wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Thursday, July 14, 2022. Image Source : APThis photo provided Friday July 15, 2022 by the fire brigade of the Gironde region shows firefighters using hose to fight a wildfire near Landiras, southwestern France, Thursday, July 14, 2022.

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Soaring Mediterranean temperatures bring death and destruction
1 year, 4 months ago

Soaring Mediterranean temperatures bring death and destruction

Al Jazeera  

Extreme weather throughout July has caused havoc in Southern Europe, North Africa and across the world. Extreme weather throughout July has caused havoc across the world, with temperatures breaking records in China, the United States and Southern Europe, sparking forest fires, water shortages and a rise in heat-related illnesses and hospitalisations. Scientists rank the Mediterranean region as a climate change …

Fire crews lose control of blaze near Athens as southern Europe heat wave keeps communities on alert
1 year, 5 months ago

Fire crews lose control of blaze near Athens as southern Europe heat wave keeps communities on alert

Associated Press  

LOUTRAKI, Greece — Evening winds fueled a major wildfire west of Greece’s capital Thursday, triggering a series of new evacuations outside Athens as authorities braced for more of the extreme weather that has brought searing heat to southern Europe. Authorities had declared the huge blaze contained overnight and Greece’s Fire Service intensified water drops with the help of extra firefighting …

Firefighters battle France’s 1st major forest blaze of 2023
1 year, 8 months ago

Firefighters battle France’s 1st major forest blaze of 2023

Associated Press  

PARIS — France’s government sounded the alarm Monday about the growing risk of forest fires because of climate change, as hundreds of firefighters in the country’s parched south wrestled with their biggest woodland-destroying blaze so far this year. On a visit Monday to the zone, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said: “The fire season is starting early because of climate …

French wildfire stops expanding; workers seek to tame it
2 years, 4 months ago

French wildfire stops expanding; workers seek to tame it

Associated Press  

PARIS — A major wildfire that ravaged pine forests in a tourist-beloved area of southwestern France has stopped expanding after rain fell and firefighters worked Sunday to tame it. More than 360 firefighters arrived in France on Friday from Germany, Romania, Poland and Austria to help battle the fire, joining over 1,000 French firefighters already at the site. More than …

Thousands evacuated from France’s Gironde as forest fires rage
2 years, 4 months ago

Thousands evacuated from France’s Gironde as forest fires rage

Al Jazeera  

More than 1,000 firefighters are battling a huge wildfire sweeping through the Gironde region of southwestern France. A huge wildfire that has destroyed more than a dozen homes and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents was sweeping through the Gironde region of southwestern France on Wednesday. “Everyone in the village climbed onto their rooftops to see what was happening …

Heatwave continues in France, triggering drought alert
2 years, 4 months ago

Heatwave continues in France, triggering drought alert

India TV News  

Highlights Heatwave continues to hit most parts of France this week Wednesday is the hottest day of the week with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius Five departments in southwestern France have issued an "extreme heat" warning Heatwave continues to hit most parts of France this week, triggering a drought alert in the wake of the driest July in more than …

Wildfires raging in Europe: What, where and why?
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires raging in Europe: What, where and why?

Al Jazeera  

As emergency services battle wildfires across Europe, we take a look at the event and the probable causes. On Thursday, the European Forest Fire Information System said 19 countries were in “extreme danger” from the wildfires, while Spain, Portugal and France were at “very extreme danger”. France : Since July 12, firefighters in the southwest Gironde department have been battling …

Watch | What’s causing wildfires across the Mediterranean region?
2 years, 5 months ago

Watch | What’s causing wildfires across the Mediterranean region?

The Hindu  

The Mediterranean region witnessed huge wildfires last week as extreme heat gripped Europe and North Africa. On July 15, firefighters and the military struggled to contain three wildfires in the North African country of Morocco. Over 12,000 people have been evacuated as fires scorched pine forests in France’s Bordeaux region In Spain, more than 20 fires have blazed out of …

Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe as Climate Alarm Sounded
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires Rage Across Southern Europe as Climate Alarm Sounded

News 18  

Emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain’s hottest day that the fight against climate change needed to be stepped up. Portugal’s northern region’s Civil Protection commander Armando Silva said rising temperatures and strong winds would make it harder to fight the country’s largest wildfire, which has …

Wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal - Europe braces for worst heatwave | In photos
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal - Europe braces for worst heatwave | In photos

Hindustan Times  

Wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal - Europe braces for worst heatwave | In photos Almost all of Europe is on alert over an impending heatwave as temperatures touch record levels and forestlands turn into a pool of fire. Hectares of forest land have been burning since last week, putting thousands of lives at risk.. 1 / 8 View Photos in …

Europe broils in heat wave that fuels fires in France, Spain
2 years, 5 months ago

Europe broils in heat wave that fuels fires in France, Spain

Associated Press  

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday 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 in tinder-dry forests. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to global warming, saying, “Climate change kills.” …

Wildfires rage in Spain; France and UK brace for record temperatures as Europe battles intense heatwave
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires rage in Spain; France and UK brace for record temperatures as Europe battles intense heatwave

India Today  

Temperatures in some parts of southern Europe began to ease over the weekend but thousands of firefighters across the region still battled to contain hundreds of wildfires and authorities said the risk of further blazes remained extremely high. Spain faced the eighth and last day of a more than week-long heatwave on Monday, which caused more than 510 heat-related deaths, …

Europe’s heatwave: UK sees third-hottest day on record, wildfires rage in France and Spain
2 years, 5 months ago

Europe’s heatwave: UK sees third-hottest day on record, wildfires rage in France and Spain

CNN  

Paris CNN — Extreme heat has engulfed parts of western Europe, with wildfires raging in France and Spain, a worsening drought in Portugal, and the third hottest day on record in the UK on Monday. An elderly couple also died Monday after their vehicle overturned while fleeing wildfires in northern Portugal, the country’s state broadcaster RTP reported. In the UK …

‘Heat apocalypse’: Europe in the grip of record-breaking heatwave
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Heat apocalypse’: Europe in the grip of record-breaking heatwave

Al Jazeera  

A heatwave broiling Europe has moved northward to the United Kingdom and fuelled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, where more than a dozen local temperature records were broken. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to global warming, saying on Monday, “climate change kills”. Records broken in France Regional temperature records in …

Forest fire forces thousands more people out of homes in France
2 years, 5 months ago

Forest fire forces thousands more people out of homes in France

Al Jazeera  

The blaze is one of two huge wildfires raging since early last week in the Girdonde region south of Bordeaux. Firefighters have been unable to control the blaze near the Dune de Pilat, Europe’s highest sand dune and a summer tourism hot spot, where rapidly changing winds have increased the risk of fire spreading to residential areas that found themselves …

Wildfires rage in France, Spain as a searing heatwave grips Europe
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires rage in France, Spain as a searing heatwave grips Europe

ABC  

France has scrambled more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to combat spreading wildfires that were being fed by hot, swirling winds from a searing heatwave grilling much of Europe. Key points: The fires have killed a sheep farmer and a firefighter in Spain Authorities in France are evacuating more towns as the wind direction changes Temperatures could exceed 40 …

Fires scorch Spain and France, where flames reach the beach
2 years, 5 months ago

Fires scorch Spain and France, where flames reach the beach

Associated Press  

PARIS — Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in Spain and France, including one whose flames reached two popular Atlantic beaches on Sunday, as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave. Spain’s National Defense Department said that “the majority” of its fire-fighting aircraft have been deployed to reach the blazes, many of which are in rugged, hilly terrain …

Forest fires rage in scorching southwest Europe
2 years, 5 months ago

Forest fires rage in scorching southwest Europe

The Hindu  

Firefighters struggled to contain wildfires sweeping across southwest Europe on Sunday as a heatwave showed no sign of abating, with Britain poised to set new temperature records this coming week. Blazes raging in France, Greece, Portugal and Spain have destroyed thousands of hectares of land, forced scores from their homes and killed several emergency personnel since last week. Authorities in …

Photos: Wildfires rage as parts of Europe battle record heatwave
2 years, 5 months ago

Photos: Wildfires rage as parts of Europe battle record heatwave

Al Jazeera  

A summer heatwave that has triggered devastating forest fires across Southwest Europe shows no signs of abating, as parts of the continent gear for new temperature records early next week. Firefighters in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece are battling forest blazes that have ravaged thousands of hectares of land and killed several people since the start of the week. Firefighters …

Heatwave scorches Europe as hundreds evacuated from wildfires
2 years, 5 months ago

Heatwave scorches Europe as hundreds evacuated from wildfires

Al Jazeera  

Officials issue health warnings as Europe braces for a new heatwave in the coming days. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as wildfires blistered land in France, Spain and Portugal, with officials issuing health warnings for a new heatwave in the coming days. Portuguese health minister Marta Temido said on Thursday the health system faced a “particularly …

Fires ravage French forests near Atlantic as Europe heats up
2 years, 5 months ago

Fires ravage French forests near Atlantic as Europe heats up

LA Times  

Flames engulf trees near Landiras, France. Challenged by high temperatures and strong winds, 1,000 firefighters and 10 water-dumping planes struggled Friday to contain two wildfires in the Bordeaux region of southwestern France that have forced the evacuation of 11,300 people and ravaged pine forests near the Atlantic coast. “We are living through an exceptionally harsh season,” French President Emmanuel Macron …

Wildfires scorch parts of Europe amid extreme heat wave
2 years, 5 months ago

Wildfires scorch parts of Europe amid extreme heat wave

LA Times  

A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain, Croatia and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that is being linked to climate change. Fueled by strong winds, fires raged along Croatia’s Adriatic Sea coast as well, with the most dramatic situation reported near the town of Sibenik, where water-dropping …

Thousands Of People Flee A Wildfire Near The French Riviera During Vacation Season
3 years, 4 months ago

Thousands Of People Flee A Wildfire Near The French Riviera During Vacation Season

NPR  

Thousands Of People Flee A Wildfire Near The French Riviera During Vacation Season Enlarge this image toggle caption SDIS 83 via AP SDIS 83 via AP LA GARDE-FREINET, France — Thousands of people fled homes, campgrounds and hotels near the French Riviera on Tuesday as firefighters battled a blaze that raced through nearby forests, sending smoke pouring down wooded slopes …

Why Europe is burning
3 years, 4 months ago

Why Europe is burning

The Hindu  

Wildfires burning across southern Europe in the last month — whether sparked naturally by lightning, or by arsonists — have been flamed by drought and extreme heat. In the decade before 2016, around 48,000 forest fires burned 457,000 hectares annually across the five southern European nations where wildfires are most prevalent: Spain, France, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And inevitably, climate …

Devastating wildfires in southern Europe could reignite, experts warn
3 years, 4 months ago

Devastating wildfires in southern Europe could reignite, experts warn

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Authorities in South Europe have warned that the current heatwave could reignite devastating wildfires which …

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