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Continued fires in southwestern Europe, UK on red alert

This heat wave is the second in barely a month. The multiplication of these phenomena is a direct consequence of global warming according to scientists, with greenhouse gas emissions increasing in intensity, duration and frequency.

In Portugal, affected for a week by scorching temperatures and a series of fires, the emergency services identified a dozen active fires on Friday evening, which mobilized more than 900 firefighters.

According to civil protection, these fires killed two people, including the pilot of a water bomber – a medium-sized plane, of the FireBoss type – which crashed in the early evening while fighting forest fires near Vila Nova de Foz Coa, in the northern region of Guarda.

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