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A general view of a wildfire in Gursu in the northwestern Bursa province, Turkey, July 27, 2025. — Reuters
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Firefighters confronted the Blaze in Turkey and Bulgaria on Monday, when a deadly heatwave went to most parts of the Mediterranean in the second week.
According to officials, at least 14 deaths have been reported in Turkey last week and about 20 villages have been recovered.
In neighboring Bulgaria, emergency services fought more than 160 forest fires across the country on Monday. Greece also struggled to clean up after a week of forest fire, and Spanish aircraft went to help Portuguese firefighters deal with fire on a remote mountain.
“We’re burning, we don’t even know where to go.”
Temperatures on Friday, two hours away from the house of Jegenny, arrived at a high record of 50.5 degrees Celsius (123 Fahrenheit) on Friday.
According to the forecast, the temperature will remain fire this week with the heat from 45C to 50C heat in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday.
On Monday, in Diyarbakar, authorities warned residents that the temperature would be higher than the seasonal average by August 2. The thermometer was showing 45.4C at noon on Monday.
The heatwave has promoted the forest fire, which has spread rapidly in strong wind conditions.
Firefighters dealt with Turkey’s fourth largest city and one of the most important industrial hubs, in the northwest, around the northwest.
Among the strong winds that dimming the flames of fire, some residents used tractors to carry water tanks, while television images were shown running to the fire carrying water bottles to others.
Answer ‘Sometimes Limited’
Turkey’s agriculture and forest minister Ibrahim Yumakli acknowledged, “In view of the size and intensity of the fire, the state’s ability to respond immediately to such disasters is sometimes limited.”
“If it has happened, there are no aircraft, and you take hours to control, even days, it takes days.”
In recent times, 19 villages in the Zafarbollo region in the north had to be evacuated, and more than 3,500 people around Bursa.
In a television speech, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 96 percent of the fire was caused by human activity such as cigarette bit and picnic fire.
He said that since the beginning of the summer, more than 3,000 fires have erupted and some are volcanoes.
Erdogan said, “We should not forget that this is a war, defending our green homeland, this captaincy is against the enemy.”
Last week, a forest fire killed at least 10 jungle workers and rescue workers who were fighting a fire near Escane in western Turkey.
A heart attack on Saturday died of flames. A water tanker truck accident killed three more people on Sunday, Raza officials said.
Authorities say the risk of fire will remain high until October. And a worldwide report about a UN report estimates that 88 % of Turkey’s territory is at risk: it is expected that the rainfall will decrease by 30 % by the end of the century, while the temperature will rise from 5C to 6C compared to the average between 1961 and 1990.
New fire in Greece
Emergency services in Bulgaria have fought more than 160 active forest fires. On Friday, some broke out on Friday destroyed about 20 houses in Rani village near the Serbia border.
The Black Mediterranean also requested the European Union’s assistance, in which two Swedish aircraft were deployed for help. On Monday, helicopters from Slovenia, Czech Republic, Czech Republic, Hungary, France and Romania were also at work.
In Greece, where Blays destroyed homes this summer and gave birth to evacuation across the country, firefighters controlled dozens of forest fires in the weekend.
But a new inforino broke out near a university campus east of Athens in the Zoographo Municipality. About 65 firefighters, 20 vehicles, seven helicopters and six aircraft flames, officials said.
Greece has endured heatwave conditions for a week, with temperatures going through 40C in many areas.
On the Peninsula, Four Spanish aircraft joined more than 250 Portuguese firefighters who fought with a mountain fire in the Vienna Do Castelo district on the Portuguese Spanish border. Civil protection chief Marco Domingos said the flames were spreading in two directions due to strong winds and was having difficulty dealing with it.
Due to the heat and winds, the authorities have mostly placed North and southern Portugal on the highest warning for forest fire.
