A heat wave baking southeast Europe has fueled deadly wildfires in Turkey and threatened the national power grid in Greece as governments scrambled Monday to secure the resources needed to cope with the emergency.
Temperatures reached 45 C in inland areas of Greece and nearby countries and are expected to remain high for most of the week.
“It's burning. It's obviously burning. There's no plane, there's no helicopter, there are no roads,” she said, sobbing. “How is this going to be extinguished? How?” “This year, we have seen a number of significant events, including a particularly dramatic heat wave in western Canada and the U.S., that was extreme even for current levels of climate change,” Mitchell said. “These black swan events have always happened, but now they sit on the background of a hotter climate, so are even more deadly.”
“That zone of pine forest is a nature reserve, and it's completely destroyed. It brings tears to see it. The environmental damage is incalculable. This is the heart of the city, its green lung and today it is destroyed,” Pescara Mayor Carlo Masci said.
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