Spain and Portugal battle wildfires
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Mapped: All the areas where wildfires have broken out in Spain, Turkey and Portugal as record-breaking heatwave continues - France has only issued a red alert eight times in the past 20 years as it ex
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France 24 on MSNSix killed fighting fires in Spain and Portugal as wildfires ravage peninsula
Two firefighters have died across Spain and Portugal as the Iberian peninsula grapples with devastating wildfires exacerbated by an enduring heatwave. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed
This year is turning into one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory in Europe. Firefighters are struggling to contain out-of-control wildfires in western Spain and Portugal.
Temperatures have soared to 45C in Spain in the past fortnight - so far fires have burned over an area the size of Mallorca
LISBON: The fires raging across Portugal claimed their first victim Friday (Aug 15), when the former mayor of the eastern town of Guarda died fighting fires there, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced.