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20260807 083000 UTC
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[00:03:22] Europe
[00:03:23] is on fire.
[00:03:34] Europe is on the brink, EU countries are waiting for a new wave of fires,
[00:03:38] rescue services will not cope, the likelihood of their overload is growing with
[00:03:42] each day, resources are running out, the Financial Times
[00:03:45] writes about this directly, the situation is critical,
[00:03:48] the statement made by the EU Emergency Response
[00:03:51] Coordination Centre sounds like a verdict, all of
[00:03:55] Europe could be engulfed in flames, there will be no
[00:03:58] salvation at the end of July. The states of the European Union have been swept by a wave
[00:04:02] of record forest fires, provoked by extreme heat
[00:04:05] and prolonged drought. The destruction is catastrophic. According to
[00:04:09] UN data, over 400,000 hectares of
[00:04:13] forest have burned out. This is an area equal to the size of eight
[00:04:16] Warszaws. The situation is heating up every hour.
[00:04:32] The scale of the disaster in the EU is growing with each year, taking on an increasingly
[00:04:36] threatening character. The final picture of this
[00:04:39] season will only be able to be assessed after its completion, but
[00:04:42] the frightening trend is already obvious. Statistics are
[00:04:46] relentless, if in 2022,
[00:04:49] fire destroyed 1.4
[00:04:52] million hectares of territory in the European region, then by
[00:04:55] 2025, this figure
[00:04:58] reached two whole.
[00:05:01] In just 3 years, the area of burned land has increased by almost
[00:05:05] 60%. The elements are not going to
[00:05:09] stop.
[00:05:12] This year has broken records again. Just a few weeks after
[00:05:16] historically high temperatures in June, another
[00:05:19] powerful heatwave is approaching. The consequences of the recent heat were severe,
[00:05:23] labor productivity decreased, schools and workplaces
[00:05:27] closed, hospitals are overflowing, roads are damaged,
[00:05:30] railway tracks deformed, and crops
[00:05:33] destroyed, and people paid the highest
[00:05:36] price for it. Two dozen dead, over
[00:05:40] 300,000 evacuated.
[00:05:42] The situation is difficult in France, the largest man-made
[00:05:46] pine forest in Western Europe is burning, the natural disaster has acquired the prefix mega.
[00:06:22] One of the main cultural and natural symbols of
[00:06:25] France, the Fontainebleau forest, is engulfed in flames. It is included in
[00:06:28] the UNESCO World
[00:06:30] Heritage list.
[00:06:34] In Le Porche, the fire led to the detonation of hundreds of artillery
[00:06:38] shells from World War II. The explosions were so powerful that unexploded
[00:06:41] but red-hot ammunition scattered widely
[00:06:45] throughout the area. The residents of the commune suffered another misfortune:
[00:06:49] the flames destroyed 183 out of
[00:06:52] 240 houses in Le Porche, leaving over 3,500
[00:06:56] residents without homes or property. About 700
[00:06:59] people united to file a class action lawsuit against the authorities.
[00:07:03] The lawyer they hired explains that people feel
[00:07:06] literally sacrificed for the sake of saving
[00:07:09] the more elite neighboring areas.
[00:07:14] The victims believe that the authorities sacrificed their homes to
[00:07:18] protect luxury villas.
[00:07:21] Unfortunately, what happened in Le Porche could have been foreseen due to
[00:07:25] the severe drought that has been going on for 2
[00:07:28] months, with alternating waves of anomalous
[00:07:31] heat. But most of all, most of all, it is infuriating
[00:07:35] that fires are simply allowed to grow to some
[00:07:38] gigantic, catastrophic
[00:07:39] scales.
[00:07:42] The authorities, as a precautionary measure, told us to
[00:07:45] close the shutters and even put a wet towel under the doors.
[00:07:49] This information appeared. We were indeed told that the clouds of black,
[00:07:53] caustic smoke advancing on our homes are toxic. The
[00:07:57] media, of course, says that this is not toxic smoke, but as a
[00:08:00] precautionary measure, the authorities did the right thing by warning
[00:08:04] the population. The fire began to form its own
[00:08:08] microclimate, pericumulative, fiery,
[00:08:11] thunderstorms arose.
[00:08:42] were extremely vulnerable, and we know about it, so it was in
[00:08:45] Fontainebleau, so it is here today, fires also
[00:08:49] affected the departments of Var and Corsica, and Tarn is still suffering.
[00:08:52] I think we need to be realistic,
[00:08:55] the coming weeks will be difficult. France had to
[00:08:59] activate the EU civil protection mechanism to request
[00:09:02] international assistance. Spain did
[00:09:05] likewise. The fire in the Avila region became the largest in the
[00:09:08] country's history of observations. The fire completely destroyed.
[00:09:42] four times more large fires than in the entire previous year. As a result
[00:09:46] of just a few fires across Spain, over 100
[00:09:49] thousand hectares of land were burned. To understand the scale, this corresponds
[00:09:53] to the average annual loss figures that Spain has suffered over the past
[00:09:57] decades. According to the Spanish meteorological agency,
[00:10:01] almost the entire country is in a high fire
[00:10:04] risk zone. Air humidity has dropped below
[00:10:06] 15%, and dry winds fan the flames in
[00:10:10] a matter of minutes.
[00:10:12] Constant obstacles to grazing livestock, obstacles to collecting
[00:10:16] pineapples, to collecting firewood, even those that lie on the ground, we cannot
[00:10:20] clear our forests, they want them to burn, which
[00:10:23] is happening now, it's... Spain
[00:10:28] has turned into
[00:10:29] a desert.
[00:10:33] These heat waves are further evidence of the rising global average
[00:10:36] temperature, which has already approached the mark of one and a half degrees Celsius
[00:10:40] above pre-industrial levels. This trend is causing serious
[00:10:44] concern in Europe. We are the fastest warming
[00:10:48] region in the world. Human-caused climate change undoubtedly
[00:10:51] is the main root cause of heat waves, forest fires, and other extreme
[00:10:55] weather events such as floods and droughts.
[00:10:58] наводнения засухи.