While one of the most intense heatwaves of recent decades has hit Southeastern Europe, the fire emergency is becoming increasingly worrying. The bonfires have the Dannunziana pinewood was devastated, 53 hectares, near a beach in Pescara, Abruzzo: at least five people were injured and tourists and residents evacuated. The hot wind, meanwhile, continues to rekindle the fire.
In the last few hours, the firefighters have carried out over 800 interventions: 250 in Sicily, 130 in Puglia and Calabria, 90 in Lazio and 70 in Campania. In Sardinia, in the Oristano area, at least 20 thousand hectares of woods and pastures have gone up in smoke, destroying farms, killing animals and devastating a centuries-old environmental heritage.
But fires also broke out in the rest of southeastern Europe, in Spain, Greece and Turkey. According to data from the European Union, this year’s fire season was significantly more destructive than average: experts believe that the global warming you increase its frequency and intensity.
Dozens of villages have been evacuated to the tourist resorts of southern Turkey, which it is suffering from the worst fires of the last ten years: 95,000 hectares have already gone up in smoke, so far, compared to an average of 13,516, in the same period of the year, between 2008 and 2020.
But also in the rest of the world, from Siberia to Canada to the West of the United States, increasingly severe fires have devastated hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest. With unprecedented speed and violence that are the manifestation of the consequences of global warming. According to meteorologists, unstable atmospheric conditions could contribute to the formation of pyrocumulus, or clouds of fire, which can create lightning and further fuel fires.
In Siberia, the flames destroyed over 800,000 hectares of forests in three weeks and released large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air. In the United States, California, at least 80,000 hectares of land went up in smoke, destroying forests and villages. In Oregon, the “bootleg fire”, the largest active fire in the US, which broke out on 6 July, is still active and has destroyed 1,500 kilometers of land, raising columns of smoke. The ashes, carried by the wind, fall to the ground, unleashing other flames.
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