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EUROPE BROILS IN HEAT WAVE THAT FUELS FIRES IN FRANCE, SPAIN

By BOB EDME and JOHN LEICESTERJuly 19, 2022

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A firefighter walks among flames at a forest fire near Louchats, 35 kms (22
miles) from Landiras in Gironde, southwestern France, Monday, July 18, 2022.
France scrambled more water-bombing planes and hundreds more firefighters to
combat spreading wildfires that were being fed Monday by hot swirling winds from
a searing heat wave broiling much of Europe. With winds changing direction,
authorities in southwestern France announced plans to evacuate more towns and
move out 3,500 people at risk of finding themselves in the path of the raging
flames. (Philippe Lopez/Pool Photo via AP)

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward
Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which
evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and
firefighters to battle flames in tinder-dry forests.

Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain that its prime minister linked to
global warming, saying, “Climate change kills.”

That toll comes on top of the hundreds of heat-related deaths reported in the
Iberian peninsula, as high temperatures have gripped the continent in recent
days and triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans. Some areas, including
northern Italy, are also experiencing extended droughts. Climate change makes
such life-threatening extremes less of a rarity — and heat waves have come even
to places like Britain, which braced for possible record-breaking temperatures.

The hot weather in the U.K. was expected to be so severe this week that train
operators warned it could warp the rails and some schools set up wading pools to
help children cool off.

In France, heat records were broken and swirling hot winds complicated
firefighting in the country’s southwest.

“The fire is literally exploding,” said Marc Vermeulen, the regional fire
service chief who described tree trunks shattering as flames consumed them,
sending burning embers into the air and further spreading the blazes.

“We’re facing extreme and exceptional circumstances,” he said.

Authorities evacuated more towns, moving another 14,900 people from areas that
could find themselves in the path of the fires and choking smoke. In all, more
than 31,000 people have been forced from their homes and summer vacation spots
in the Gironde region since the wildfires began July 12.

Three additional planes were sent to join six others fighting the fires,
scooping up seawater and making repeated runs through dense clouds of smoke, the
Interior Ministry said Sunday night.

More than 200 reinforcements headed to join the 1,500 firefighters trying to
contain the blazes in the Gironde, where flames neared prized vineyards and
billowed smoke across the Arcachon maritime basin famed for its oysters and
beaches.

Spain, meanwhile, reported a second fatality in two days in its own blazes. The
body of a 69-year-old sheep farmer was found Monday in the same hilly area where
a 62-year-old firefighter died a day earlier when he was trapped by flames in
the northwestern Zamora province. More than 30 forest fires around Spain have
forced the evacuation of thousands of people and blackened 220 square kilometers
(85 square miles) of forest and scrub.

Passengers on a train through Zamora got a frightening, close look at a blaze,
when their train halted in the countryside. Video of the unscheduled — and
unnerving — stop showed about a dozen passengers in a railcar becoming alarmed
as they looked out of the windows at the flames encroaching on both sides of the
track.

Climate scientists say heat waves are more intense, more frequent and longer
because of climate change — and coupled with droughts have made wildfires harder
to fight. They say climate change will continue to make weather more extreme and
wildfires more frequent and destructive.

“Climate change kills,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday during
a visit to the Extremadura region, the site of three major blazes. “It kills
people, it kills our ecosystems and biodiversity.”

Teresa Ribera, Spain’s minister for ecological transition, described her country
as “literally under fire” as she attended talks on climate change in Berlin.

She warned of “terrifying prospects still for the days to come” — after more
than 10 days of temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit),
cooling only moderately at night.

At least 748 heat-related deaths have been reported in the heat wave in Spain
and neighboring Portugal, where temperatures reached 47 C (117 F) earlier this
month.

The heat wave in Spain was forecast to ease on Tuesday, but the respite will be
brief as temperatures rise again on Wednesday, especially in the dry western
Extremadura region.

In Britain, officials have issued the first-ever extreme heat warning, and the
weather service forecast that the record high of 38.7 C (101.7 F), set in 2019,
could be shattered.

“Forty-one isn’t off the cards,” said Met Office CEO Penelope Endersby. “We’ve
even got some 43s in the model, but we’re hoping it won’t be as high as that.”

France’s often-temperate Brittany region sweltered with a record 39.3 C (102.7
F) degrees in the port of Brest, surpassing a high of 35.1 C that had stood
since September 2003, French weather service Meteo-France said.

Regional records in France were broken in over a dozen towns, as the weather
service said Monday was “the hottest day of this heat wave.”

The Balkans region expected the worst of the heat later this week, but has
already seen sporadic wildfires.

Early Monday, authorities in Slovenia said firefighters brought one fire under
control. Croatia sent a water-dropping plane there to help after struggling last
week with its own wildfires along the Adriatic Sea. A fire in Sibenik forced
some people to evacuate their homes but was later extinguished.

In Portugal, much cooler weather Monday helped fire crews make progress. More
than 600 firefighters attended four major fires in northern Portugal.

___

Leicester reported from Le Pecq. Associated Press journalists Danica Kirka and
Jill Lawless in London, Geir Moulson in Berlin, Raquel Redondo in Madrid, Barry
Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal, and Jovana Gec from Belgrade, Serbia, contributed.

___

Follow AP’s climate coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment

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