Weitoubar 丨 660,000 hectares were burned!This year's European mountain fire destroyed the land area of innovative high land

Author:Chinese Forest Prairie Fire Time:2022.08.16

Since the summer of this year, due to continuous high temperature and extreme drought, many European countries have encountered severe mountain fires. Among them, the fire in France, Portugal, Britain, Spain and other places is frequent.

System data shows that this year, more than 260,000 hectares of land in Spain were destroyed by mountain fires; France had more than 50,000 hectares of hectares of forests being burned by fire. This number was more than three times that of the average level in the past ten years.

According to the European Forest Fire Information System Coordinator Husus Sanmiger, the relevant data since 2022 "second only to 2017", the area of the mountain fire was nearly 990,000 hectares throughout the year. However, data as of August 13, 2017, showed that more than 420,000 hectares of land in Europe were destroyed by mountain fires, which was lower than the same period this year.

Spanish mountain fire over 260,000 hectares

At present, there are many mountain fires in Spain. On the 13th local time, the area of mountain fires near Alcanter near Southeast Spain had reached 3,500 hectares, which led to 1,000 nearby residents forced to evacuate. At the same time, at the Aragon area in the north, the mountain fire spread rapidly under the boom of the wind. At least 1,500 people were evacuated, and about 300 firefighters tried to control the fire with the help of the helicopter. The Spanish meteorological institution said that weather conditions such as high temperature and wind are very unfavorable to fire extinguish.

Affected by factors such as high temperature and dry weather and climate change, Spain has many mountains this summer. Data from the European Forest Fire Information System show that as of now, the area of Spain's mountain fire has reached 26.193 million hectares this year.

French continuous fire extinguishing operation

Grendter province is temporarily controlled

France is currently the most severe drought since the record in 1958, and the fourth wave of heat waves swept around. Affected by this, France is extremely fierce this summer, spreading in the south and southwestern regions, and even the north and regions of Normandy and Britani have also appeared.

According to statistics, since June 10, French fire has reached 41,400 hectares, which is much higher than 2040 hectares of the same period last year. Half of the fires occurred in the province of Grees in the southwest. As of the evening of the 11th, the fire in Grendt had devoured about 7,400 hectares of forests, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate. Earlier, France had mobilized more than 10,000 firefighters to deal with this forest fire. However, due to the large area of overfire and unfavorable climatic conditions such as drought, the fire in Greete has been difficult to control. In this regard, Germany, Greece, Romania and other countries have dispatched firefighters to France and provided aircraft, vehicles and other fire protection equipment to assist them in fire extinguishing work.

On the 12th local time, officials of Grendet said that with the efforts of firefighters, the fire was temporarily controlled, but it still needs to be vigilant because high temperature weather makes everything uncertain.

According to reports, 19 provinces in southwestern France are still in the orange high -temperature warning, and the government calls on residents to maintain a high degree of be vigilant against forest fires.

The mountain fire in central Portugal is still active

14,000 hectares of land were burned

In addition, according to the report of Portugal and the report of the Ministry of Civil Defense on the 12th local time, as of the day, the forest fire in central Portugal was still active. The fire that had occurred from August 6 had burned more than 14,000 hectares of land. According to the report, except for the fire in this field, the mountains and forest fires in the rest of Portugal have basically stabilized, and more than 15,000 soldiers participated in the fire protection work. Essence

Previously, the Portuguese Meteorological Bureau stated that July this year was the hottest month since the country's meteorological record. It is reported that as of the end of July, 45%of Portugal's land areas are in extreme drought and other areas are in severe drought.

The number of mountain fires in the UK is significantly higher than in previous years

High temperature and dry weather continues in many European countries. Frequent mountain fires in the United Kingdom, the groundwater level is lower than the normal level. On August 13, mountain fires caused by high temperature and drought in some areas of the United Kingdom were still being saved.