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Wildfires raging across Europe, Turkey, Russia; EU sends fire-fighting resources to Greece, Italy, Albania, Northern Macedonia
2021-08-05
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Posted by:Fred

#8  Fire-fighting resources from #EU nations are on their way to #Greece, #Italy, Albania and Northern Macedonia to help fight forest blazes, the EU crisis management commissioner has said.

So I guess that means the 2021 Macedonian Mud-rat Wrestling Matches will have to be called off for this year...
Posted by: Elmomoque Phitch9088   2021-08-05 19:43  

#7  ^ Across the Aegean Sea in Turkey, hundreds of local villages - many clutching small bags of belongings grabbed from their abandoned houses as the evacuation call sounded - began piling onto coastguard speedboats at port of Oren, to escape the vicinity of the thermal power plant.

The regional authority said 'all explosive chemicals' and other hazardous material had been removed from the strategic site.

'But there's a risk that the fire could spread to the thousands of tonnes of coal inside,' regional mayor Osman Gurun told reporters.


Coal? say what?
Posted by: Frank G   2021-08-05 11:54  

#6  Flames surge towards birthplace of the Olympic Games in Greece while thermal power plant is engulfed by inferno in neighbouring Turkey as wildfires rage across region
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-05 11:45  

#5  Dramatic footage shows Greek island engulfed in flame as residents are forced to flee across the sea and villages are destroyed - with Athens and the ancient site of Olympia still in danger
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-05 11:38  

#4  Monument Fire grows by 6,000 acres in just one night to engulf more than 15,000 acres and forces thousands of Californians to evacuate
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-08-05 06:55  

#3  Wasn't me
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-08-05 02:44  

#2  Oh, good - the EU is on it; I feel safer already.
Posted by: Raj   2021-08-05 00:33  

#1  did they really say record emitting carbon emissions? I hate these "ppl".
Posted by: Chris   2021-08-05 00:25  

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