The crackling flames have left charred forests, drawing in thousands of firefighters to stop their hungry march. Residents are filling buckets of water to douse blazes in their hometowns. The hundreds of wildfires that raged in recent days across Southern Europe and North Africa forced the evacuations of thousands of people. More than 20,000 people, many of them visitors, have been evacuated in recent days. On Tuesday, officials said that two pilots working to douse the flames on Evia had been killed in a plane crash.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 26, 2023 10:22 UTC