Italy Struggles with Wildfires, Heatwave
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Homes and a clinic evacuated - The fire service said it had carried out operations to extinguish more than 1,000 fires across Sicily since Saturday
Italy's largest island is suffering severely under a heat wave: temperatures reaching up to 46.2 degrees Celsius. Fires are raging in several locations. Residents are being forced to evacuate their homes. Forest fires are spreading rapidly across Sicily. According to emergency services, the fires are being fanned by the hot Scirocco wind, a desert wind blowing from nearby Africa across the Mediterranean to Italy's largest island. [...]
Especially in rural areas, but the flames also arrived near the houses: dozens of people had to evacuate
Italian firefighters are battling multiple forest fires and low-lying blazes in Sicily (south) today, as maximum temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius in some places and gusts of hot air are fanning the flames. About 100 residents, as well as 22 patients at a clinic in the center of the island, where a fire has been raging for days despite the deployment of firefighting aircraft, had to be evacuated by authorities, firefighters said in a press rel…
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