Greece battles Europe’s deadliest fire of the summer for 10th day

Hundreds of Greek firefighters were battling a huge blaze on Monday that has killed at least 20 people over the past 10 days, Europe’s
deadliest wildfire so far this summer as record-setting heatwaves unleash blazes across the continent.
The fire, which began near the city of Alexandroupolis, has raged uncontrolled in northeastern Greece’s Evros region, turbocharged by near-gale force winds and high temperatures. All but one of the victims killed so far were irregular migrants hiding in the forest.
“It is the definition of what we call a megafire,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis told a regular briefing.
The European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said the Evros blaze had burned more than 77,000 hectares of land, making it one of the biggest on European soil in years.