Firefighters contain major fire around Athens, fear extreme heat may cause new fires to erupt

• A state of emergency was issued in Rhodes, Greece, on July 20, 2023, after a hearth threatened houses and led to evacuations.
• The large blaze was contained in a single day by firefighters utilizing planes, however officers are bracing for a brand new spherical of utmost climate.
• The intense warmth throughout Europe has led to a really excessive danger of fires in Italy, Spain, and Greece.

Greece’s Fireplace Service intensified water drops west of Athens the place an enormous blaze was contained in a single day, as authorities braced Thursday for a brand new spherical of utmost climate.

Seven firefighting planes and 9 helicopters had been working within the space, together with 4 planes despatched from Italy and France as a part of a European Union help mechanism.

Searing warmth throughout Europe’s Mediterranean south has maintained a excessive or very excessive danger of fires in Spain, Italy and Greece.

WILDFIRES THREATEN VACATION HOMES NEAR ATHENS, GREECE

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated the Fire Service and civil safety authority would stay on alert as a brand new warmth wave moved eastward throughout Greece. Temperatures are anticipated to succeed in 113F Sunday.

A broken home is seen in a burnt forest in Mandra, Greece, on July 19, 2023. (AP Photograph/Thanassis Stavrakis)

“The onerous instances are clearly not over but,” Mitsotakis stated. “We face one other warmth wave and a doable strengthening of the winds. So, absolute vigilance and absolute readiness are required over the subsequent few days.”

GREECE’S CONSERVATIVES WIN LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN ELECTIONS

A state of emergency was declared Thursday on the island of Rhodes, the place evacuation orders had been issued for a number of mountain areas.

In Spain, a 42-year-old Moroccan man died from a heat-related situation on Wednesday, Spain’s public information company EFE stated on Thursday. The company stated that the person collapsed on a avenue within the area of Murcia, in Spain’s southeast.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Temperatures in Murcia peaked at 111 Fahrenheit on Wednesday. Malaga hit 44.2 levels Celsius, matching an all-time file for the southern coastal metropolis, Spain’s climate service stated.

Temperatures are forecast to fall on Friday earlier than rising once more on Sunday, when Spaniards are known as to forged ballots in a national election.