Firemen in Türkiye are battling wildfires in the centre of the northwestern province of Canakkale, fanned by strong winds, and hundreds of residents have evacuated in precaution, local authorities and media said yesterday.
Airplanes, helicopters, vehicles and more than 700 personnel are fighting the blazes, city Governor Omer Toraman said in a post on X.
Authorities launched some precautionary evacuations, including a university campus, and military and residential areas and urged residents to avoid unnecessary travel to keep roads clear for emergency vehicles.
Extreme heat and strong winds caused ‘fire whirls’ as a blaze burned several houses and forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from near a Unesco-listed national park in northern Spain, authorities said.
About 800 people were told to abandon their homes in half a dozen villages in the north of the Castile and Leon region, where several wildfires were raging.
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