The European Commission is deploying firefighting aircraft to Spain, where at least seven have died as 14 wildfires have flared amid a European heat wave.

Firefighter in Spain dies from severe burns, as EU assistance sent to Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Albania.

Wildfires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday with a round-the-clock battle to protect the perimeter of Greece’s third-largest city and at le

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As Spain enters its third week of heatwave alerts, firefighters continue to battle blazes in the northwest and west of the country, with army units deployed to help contain the blazes.

Wildfires are burning in parts of Europe as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.

The scale of this summer’s wildfires has prompted unprecedented requests for help from the European Union’s civil protection mechanism. Spain, for the first time, asked for firefighting aircraft from EU partners.

Smoke from wildfires in Southern Europe has brought hazy conditions to the UK, disrupting the current heatwave, forecasters have said. The UK experienced the fourth heatwave of the summer this week, with some areas seeing the mercury climb above 33C in the hottest places.

Firefighters have spent days battling blazes in Greece, Portugal, Spain and elsewhere. Forecasters said temperatures could pass 111 degrees in some places on Thursday.

Europe is on track for its worst wildfire season on record as swaths of the continent – including France, Spain, Albania, Portugal and Greece — battle raging, deadly fires as temperature soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.