Firefighters work to contain a wildfire burning in Dioni, near Athens, Greece, on July 20 2022. Picture: REUTERS/COSTAS BALTASEmergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain’s hottest day that the fight against climate change needed to be stepped up.
Portugal’s northern region’s Civil Protection commander Armando Silva said rising temperatures and strong winds would make it harder to fight the country’s largest wildfire, which has burnt 10,000-12,000 hectares since Sunday in and around the municipality of Murça. Forecasters there said that temperatures were expected to hit 40°C across a swathe of the north and centre this week.
Treasury minister Simon Clarke said Tuesday’s “remarkable, unprecedented” record served as “a reminder ... of the importance of tackling climate change.” “Due to the intensity and speed of the winds, the fire constantly changed direction throughout the night,” said fire department spokesperson Yiannis Artopios in a televised statement.Last year, wildfires ravaged about 300,000 acres of forest and bushland in different parts of Greece as the country experienced its worst heatwave in 30 years.
The sad reality is this is what the future for London and the UK is likely to look like if we don’t take strong action now on the climate crisis.In the northeastern Friuli Venezia Giulia region, residents were urged to stay indoors because of heavy smoke from a wildfire that started on Tuesday in the Carso area bordering Croatia and Slovenia.
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