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00:03:22Europe
00:03:23is on fire.
00:03:34Europe is on the brink, EU countries are waiting for a new wave of fires,
00:03:38rescue services will not cope, the likelihood of their overload is growing with
00:03:42each day, resources are running out, the Financial Times
00:03:45writes about this directly, the situation is critical,
00:03:48the statement made by the EU Emergency Response
00:03:51Coordination Centre sounds like a verdict, all of
00:03:55Europe could be engulfed in flames, there will be no
00:03:58salvation at the end of July. The states of the European Union have been swept by a wave
00:04:02of record forest fires, provoked by extreme heat
00:04:05and prolonged drought. The destruction is catastrophic. According to
00:04:09UN data, over 400,000 hectares of
00:04:13forest have burned out. This is an area equal to the size of eight
00:04:16Warszaws. The situation is heating up every hour.
00:04:32The scale of the disaster in the EU is growing with each year, taking on an increasingly
00:04:36threatening character. The final picture of this
00:04:39season will only be able to be assessed after its completion, but
00:04:42the frightening trend is already obvious. Statistics are
00:04:46relentless, if in 2022,
00:04:49fire destroyed 1.4
00:04:52million hectares of territory in the European region, then by
00:04:552025, this figure
00:04:58reached two whole.
00:05:01In just 3 years, the area of burned land has increased by almost
00:05:0560%. The elements are not going to
00:05:09stop.
00:05:12This year has broken records again. Just a few weeks after
00:05:16historically high temperatures in June, another
00:05:19powerful heatwave is approaching. The consequences of the recent heat were severe,
00:05:23labor productivity decreased, schools and workplaces
00:05:27closed, hospitals are overflowing, roads are damaged,
00:05:30railway tracks deformed, and crops
00:05:33destroyed, and people paid the highest
00:05:36price for it. Two dozen dead, over
00:05:40300,000 evacuated.
00:05:42The situation is difficult in France, the largest man-made
00:05:46pine forest in Western Europe is burning, the natural disaster has acquired the prefix mega.
00:06:22One of the main cultural and natural symbols of
00:06:25France, the Fontainebleau forest, is engulfed in flames. It is included in
00:06:28the UNESCO World
00:06:30Heritage list.
00:06:34In Le Porche, the fire led to the detonation of hundreds of artillery
00:06:38shells from World War II. The explosions were so powerful that unexploded
00:06:41but red-hot ammunition scattered widely
00:06:45throughout the area. The residents of the commune suffered another misfortune:
00:06:49the flames destroyed 183 out of
00:06:52240 houses in Le Porche, leaving over 3,500
00:06:56residents without homes or property. About 700
00:06:59people united to file a class action lawsuit against the authorities.
00:07:03The lawyer they hired explains that people feel
00:07:06literally sacrificed for the sake of saving
00:07:09the more elite neighboring areas.
00:07:14The victims believe that the authorities sacrificed their homes to
00:07:18protect luxury villas.
00:07:21Unfortunately, what happened in Le Porche could have been foreseen due to
00:07:25the severe drought that has been going on for 2
00:07:28months, with alternating waves of anomalous
00:07:31heat. But most of all, most of all, it is infuriating
00:07:35that fires are simply allowed to grow to some
00:07:38gigantic, catastrophic
00:07:39scales.
00:07:42The authorities, as a precautionary measure, told us to
00:07:45close the shutters and even put a wet towel under the doors.
00:07:49This information appeared. We were indeed told that the clouds of black,
00:07:53caustic smoke advancing on our homes are toxic. The
00:07:57media, of course, says that this is not toxic smoke, but as a
00:08:00precautionary measure, the authorities did the right thing by warning
00:08:04the population. The fire began to form its own
00:08:08microclimate, pericumulative, fiery,
00:08:11thunderstorms arose.
00:08:42were extremely vulnerable, and we know about it, so it was in
00:08:45Fontainebleau, so it is here today, fires also
00:08:49affected the departments of Var and Corsica, and Tarn is still suffering.
00:08:52I think we need to be realistic,
00:08:55the coming weeks will be difficult. France had to
00:08:59activate the EU civil protection mechanism to request
00:09:02international assistance. Spain did
00:09:05likewise. The fire in the Avila region became the largest in the
00:09:08country's history of observations. The fire completely destroyed.
00:09:42four times more large fires than in the entire previous year. As a result
00:09:46of just a few fires across Spain, over 100
00:09:49thousand hectares of land were burned. To understand the scale, this corresponds
00:09:53to the average annual loss figures that Spain has suffered over the past
00:09:57decades. According to the Spanish meteorological agency,
00:10:01almost the entire country is in a high fire
00:10:04risk zone. Air humidity has dropped below
00:10:0615%, and dry winds fan the flames in
00:10:10a matter of minutes.
00:10:12Constant obstacles to grazing livestock, obstacles to collecting
00:10:16pineapples, to collecting firewood, even those that lie on the ground, we cannot
00:10:20clear our forests, they want them to burn, which
00:10:23is happening now, it's... Spain
00:10:28has turned into
00:10:29a desert.
00:10:33These heat waves are further evidence of the rising global average
00:10:36temperature, which has already approached the mark of one and a half degrees Celsius
00:10:40above pre-industrial levels. This trend is causing serious
00:10:44concern in Europe. We are the fastest warming
00:10:48region in the world. Human-caused climate change undoubtedly
00:10:51is the main root cause of heat waves, forest fires, and other extreme
00:10:55weather events such as floods and droughts.
00:10:58наводнения засухи.