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The two gigantic fires that have been raging since 12 July in Gironde (south-west France) have burnt more than 19,000 hectares of forest and forced the evacuation of 34,000 people, according to the sub-prefect of Arcachon, Ronan Léaustic. SOUNDBITE
Málaga (Spain), Sep 14 (EFE) .- (Camera: EFE) The Sierra Bermeja fire, in the southwest of the province of Malaga, has devastated 9,670 hectares, a fire that this Tuesday has been considered controlled and is classified by specialists of enormous complexity and unprecedented in Spain.FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION IN MALAGA, SPAIN
The death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warns. "The death toll is huge, it might reach thousands," says Tamer Ramadan of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told reporters in Geneva via video link from Tunis. SOUNDBITE
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
Cars lie burned out on the ground after fires near Verin town in Galicia's Orense Province left 600 hectares burned and several private properties damaged. Since the start of the year Spain has experienced 354 wildfires which have ravaged nearly 230,000 hectares, more than in any other nation in Europe, according to the European Union's satellite monitoring service EFFIS. IMAGES