19 May 2024,   03:25
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Wildfires are spreading across Europe and the US

Wildfires are spreading across Europe as the combination of heatwaves and droughts are making it hard to combat the blazes in some regions.

On Wednesday, emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations. Temperatures cooled in France and the United Kingdom but firefighters continue battling wildfires in Greece, Spain and Italy.

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”.

In southwestern Slovenia, a severe wildfire was reported on Thursday in Kostanjevica na Krasu, a very dry and windy area.

Wildfires have been raging in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Turkey, the United Kingdom and France.

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