Natural disasters follow one another in different countries.
This Sunday, it was Germany that bore the brunt of the exceptional heat wave.
The authorities announced that they had evacuated nearly 700 people near Berlin due to a fire extending over nearly 100 hectares.
"Three districts" of the town of Treuenbrietzen, in the Brandenburg region that surrounds the German capital, were evacuated on Sunday, a spokesman for the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark told AFP.
The fire, which broke out on Friday evening, ravages, according to local media, a hundred hectares in this wooded and rural region, around the municipality of Treuenbrietzen, where nearly 8,000 inhabitants live.
Prepared emergency accommodation
“We are asking all residents to leave their homes (…) this is NOT an exercise,” said the city hall on Twitter to residents of the neighborhood.
Emergency accommodation has been set up in the town hall building.
In 2018, the town had already experienced a fire which destroyed 400 hectares of forest.
The wind, which is particularly strong, accelerates the spread of the fire, and makes the work of the intervention forces difficult, according to the authorities.
The evolution of the fire is "rapid", they said on Saturday.
Several federal police and army helicopters are providing aerial support to the firefighters, drawing water from a lake near the area, according to images released by the Bundeswehr.
This fire comes as part of Germany, and Europe, has been facing a heat episode of exceptional magnitude for several days.
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