Turkish city under threat as Europe grapples with fires
Forest fires swallowing Türkiye for weeks threaten the fourth largest city of the country and force more than 3,500 people to escape from their homes and to die.
Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Montenegro are also fighting flames fed by unusual high temperatures, dry conditions and powerful winds.
Fires spread rapidly in the forest mountains surrounding Bursa in northwest of Türkiye, and the night sky colored the sky with a red glow on the eastern suburbs of the city. Duzines have hit the country every day since the end of June, and the government has declared two Western provinces of Izmir and the two Western provinces as disaster regions on Friday.
Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli, on Sunday, a statement to journalists, more than 1,900 firefighters fighting flames while fighting 3,515 people were released safely to the northeast of Bursa, he said. Bursa connecting the capital Ankara to the highway, the surrounding forests were closed while burning.
A firefighter died of a heart attack while Mustafa Bozbey was at work. In the local media, a person reported that a water tanker was killed when he fell into a valley outside Bursa and that he had been seriously injured.
Yumakli, the country -wide fire brigade teams on Saturday, 84 separate flames, he said. The northwest of the country was under the greatest threat, including Karabuk, where fires were burned since Tuesday, and 1,839 people from 19 villages were released.
Fifteen people have been killed in recent weeks, 10 rescue volunteer and forestry workers were killed in a fire in Eskisehir in Türkiye on Wednesday.
In Greece, the firefighters fought active fires on Saturday, southwest of the country and on the island of Kythera on Sunday after a fire that roasted the northern suburb of Krioneri on Saturday. Although the winds slightly alleviate, high temperatures reaching 38 ° C (100 F) or more continue in most of the country.
In Kryoneri, 27 people were released in one night with the help of police overnight after some warnings. Authorities called on the public to obey the evacuation orders and warned that the resistance ended both civilians and rescuers.
Firefighters on the Italian Island, dozens of dozens of beach players in Sardinia when a large forest fire exploded when the other ways of escape when he had to flee by boat, he said.
Black smoke rises from the beach in the villa to the south of the island.
Bulgaria’s Greece and Türkiye and the southern borders and the Western Serbian borders and firefighters fought forest fires while the government declared the worst accurate state disaster zones. The highest level of code was given to the residents in about half of the country with a red warning.
National Fire Department Chief Alexander Djartov told journalists that 236 forest fire burned with strong winds. He added that the government asked for help from the EU partners and later on Sunday, the Czech Republic was expected from the plane from Slovakia, France, Hungary and Sweden.
“This is a ruthless tragedy,” he said, “This is a brutal tragedy.” “I have never seen anything like this in my fireman all years.”
