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Large wildfires have occurred one after another in southern Europe, including France, Spain, and Italy.
It is struggling to evolve as record heat waves and strong winds overlap.
Correspondent Ahn Sang-woo.
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is a forest in Roussa, France.
The fire is smoky from the fire, and the firefighting work is in full swing around the burning trees.
In the province of Gironde in southwestern France, a forest fire that has occurred in recent weeks has burned 34 times the area of Yeouido so far, and 14,000 local residents have been evacuated.
The authorities dispatched more than 1,000 firefighters, but it is not easy to extinguish the fire as the heat wave overlaps.
[Firefighter: In a few days, the fire got really big.
We managed to turn the flames in the direction we wanted and were able to protect the local residents.]
In Spain, which suffers from heat over 40 degrees every day, wildfires broke out in about 30 areas and more than 3,000 citizens were evacuated.
It is analyzed that this year's spring was unusually hot and dry, along with a record-breaking heatwave, leading to an earlier period of wildfires.
[Local resident: Undoubtedly, putting out the fire is more difficult in 40 degrees weather.
Climate change is affecting all of us.]
Meanwhile, in Europe, heat waves are causing a lot of damage to people.
In Portugal, where temperatures rose to 47 degrees last week, heatwaves killed 659 people, while in Spain, heat-related deaths reached 360.
The UK has issued a red heat warning for the first time in history, equivalent to a national emergency.