- Three Turkish firefighters die in crashes.
- Greece reports 44 fires in 24 hours.
- Albania exposes 900 firefighters near tourist places.
ATHENS: Firefighters fought Monday to expose fire in three separate provinces in Turkey, in Greece and near a tourist town of Albania, stacked by strong wind after days of burning heat over the Mediterranean.
Smoke wavy over the mountainous Black Sea Province’s Carabuk, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital Ankara, as a fireplace raged for a sixth day, forced the evacuation of more than a dozen villages and burned forests of forests.
In the northwestern province of Bursa, three firefighters were killed on Sunday when their vehicle crashed, Turkish Department of Forestry said on Monday.
The crews fought for two separate blows on Monday after the evacuation of more than 3,600 people from settlements in the southern provinces of Mersin and Antalya.
Turkey has suffered dozens of fires in recent weeks as temperatures have risen and 10 firefighters were killed last week and fought for a flame in the central Eskisehir province.
Hot and dry summers are common in the Mediterranean, but more intense heat waves have contributed to destructive fires in recent years in the midst of rapid rising temperatures across the globe.
At least 44 fires broke out in Greece for the last 24 hours, the fire department said on Monday afternoon.
On the southern Greek island of Kythera, strong winds resumed a burning burning since Saturday. In Athens, firefighters quickly contained a fire that broke out at the foot of Mount Hymettus, near a university campus and densely populated suburbs.
In Albania, over 900 firefighters fought, whom the army struggled to control a fireplace before reaching the sea Saranda and other tourist places in the southern country on the Ionian coast.
About 13 people have been arrested for arson -related offenses in the last three days, police say.
Bulgaria, assisted by several European countries, deployed firefighting aircraft to help tame a large fireplace near the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
So far, the flames have burned about 16,000 hectares in total. Two people have been detained by authorities investigating the cause of fires, according to local media.
Over the weekend, several villages in Greece were evacuated and five people were wounded in separate fires.
When Greece saw its third summer heat wave on Monday, raining in Serbia with firefighters helped bring more than 100 fires under control.
