Firefighters are scrambling to put out raging wildfires as temperatures surge close to 50°C across parts of Europe.
Videos showed flames edging close to villas, burning palm trees and parts of golf courses.The biggest flames are around the town of Landiras, where authorities shut roads and rushed out 500 residents.
‘Other campers woke us up at around 4:30 in the morning. We had to leave immediately and quickly choose what to take with us’, Christelle, a tourist told BFM TV. In Spain’s western region of Extremadura, a fire swept into Salamanca province in the region of Castile and Leon, leaving more than 4,000 hectares scorched.
One temperature dial in Seville was showing 50°C on Wednesday, although Spain’s AEMET meteorology service said the country’s highest temperature on Wednesday stood at 45.6 C in Huelva province.European Union officials cautioned last week that climate change is behind the extremely dry and hot summer.
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