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The year 2023 was one of the worst for wildfires in the European Union since 2000. Over 500,000 hectares of land were burned, an area half the size of Cyprus.

We are not going through each country. We will read the reasons for such fires:

Climate change is not only increasing the size of the areas affected by wildfires, but also making individual fires more intense, prolonging the fire season beyond the traditional summer period, and causing fires to happen in areas that were not usually affected by them.

The high frequency and intensity of wildfires during prolonged fire seasons pose a new challenge to firefighting services across Europe and globally, as aerial firefighting becomes more arduous and ground operations become more difficult or even impossible.

 

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