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The fire situation in Albania has attracted the attention of international media. The Associated Press in an article addresses the situation that has involved Greece, Turkey, Spain and Albania.
The article says that fires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday after an overnight battle to defend the perimeter of Greece's third-largest city, with at least three more deaths reported in Spain, Turkey and Albania.
Outside the Greek port city of Patras, firefighters struggled to protect homes and agricultural facilities as flames engulfed olive groves.
As water-dropping planes and helicopters flew overhead, residents joined the effort, dousing the flames with cut branches or dousing them with buckets of water.
Planes were flying over the flames in western mainland Greece, the Patras area and the island of Zakynthos. Athens also sent aid to neighboring Albania, joining an international effort to fight dozens of fires. An 80-year-old man died in a fire in Gramsh, a town south of the capital, Tirana, officials said on Wednesday.
Residents of four villages in central Albania were evacuated near a former army ammunition depot. Explosions from World War II-era artillery shells were reported in the southern district of Korça, near the Greek border.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez expressed condolences after the death of a volunteer firefighter in the hard-hit region of Castile and León north of Madrid, where thousands of people have been displaced due to evacuations.
The government raised the national emergency response level, preparing additional support for regional authorities overseeing multiple evacuations and highway closures.
A forestry worker was also killed on Wednesday while responding to a fire in southern Turkey, officials said. The Forestry Ministry said the worker died in an accident involving a fire truck that left four others injured.
Turkey has been battling severe wildfires since late June. A total of 18 people have died, including 10 volunteer rescue workers and forestry workers who died in July.
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