Spanish and Portuguese firefighters battling a fire in Spain's Extremadura region (west) Fire forced hundreds of people to evacuate a number of villages. More than 36,<> Italians have been forced from their homes by flooding in the northeast of the country.
Heavy rains earlier this week killed 14 people and turned streets in cities and towns in the Emilia-Romagna region into rivers. The floods caused more than 305 landslides, and damaged or blocked more than 500 roads in the area.