Sicily data highest ever temperature in Europe; one lifeless as wildfires rage in southern Italy

Fires ravaged southern Italy on Wednesday, burning 1000’s of acres of land and killing a person in his house, as temperatures hit data properly above 40 levels Celsius (104°F) and scorching winds stoked the flames.
Multiple blazes erupted in Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot, the place a 76-year-old man died after his home collapsed because of the flames, Ansa information company reported.
“Yet another victim of the fires. We are losing our history, our identity is turning to ashes, our soul is burning,” the mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Falcomata, wrote on Facebook.
He urged individuals to stay away from the affected areas.
In this picture launched by the Italian Firefighters, a view of a hearth close to Petralia Soprana, within the higher Madonie, close to Palermo, Sicily, Italy, within the early hours of Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, as many wildfires proceed plaguing the area. (AP Photo)
Fires are additionally sweeping via Sicily, destroying timber and threatening property within the southern and central components of the island, native media reported.
In the city of Floridia, in southern Sicily, the temperature reached 48.8 levels Celsius in early afternoon, the best temperature ever recorded in Europe, day by day newspaper Corriere della Sera reported, citing the regional meteorological info system.
Firemen stated on Twitter they’d carried out greater than 3,000 operations in Sicily and Calabria within the final 12 hours, using seven planes to attempt to douse the flames from above.
“We must immediately respond to this emergency, providing economic relief to those who have lost everything,” stated Agriculture Minister Stefano Patuanelli.
Fuelled by the new climate, fires have erupted throughout southern Europe in current weeks, with enormous harm to the panorama on the Italian island of Sardinia.

In Greece, many villages on the Peloponnese peninsula have been evacuated on Wednesday as exhausted firefighters battled wildfires for a ninth consecutive day.
At the opposite finish of the Mediterranean, fires additionally tore via forested areas of northern Algeria on Wednesday, killing at the least 65 individuals, state tv reported.