{"id":41911,"date":"2025-07-28T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41911\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:43:08","slug":"albania-and-bulgaria-ask-eu-for-help-to-deal-with-raging-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/41911\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania and Bulgaria ask EU for help to deal with raging wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n            ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Albanian fire brigades are facing dozens of fire fronts which are raging because of a combination of arson and the heat wave.<\/p>\n<p>Forest fires are raging in many areas across the country with the main problems being in the south-western areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Damage includes many homes, and thousands of acres have been left charred.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 firefighters and emergency units are involved in trying to tackle the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian, Croatian and Italian air assets are assisting in the extinguishing work as Tirana has requested assistance from the European Civil Protection Mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria: Multiple fronts near the border with Turkey<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria has to deal with more than 230 fire fronts.<\/p>\n<p>The EU sent four helicopters and two aircraft to help tackle them. 11 regions have been put on red alert due to high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of houses have been burnt to the ground and thousands of acres of forest have been set ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>The most serious problems are located east of the border with Turkey. In Turkey itself, a record temperature of 50,5 degrees Celsius has been measured in the south-eastern city of Silopi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT Albanian fire brigades are facing dozens of fire fronts which are raging because of a combination of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[33696,33697,33695,4869,192,6956,31936,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-41911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-albania","9":"tag-bulgaria","10":"tag-civil-protection","11":"tag-climate-crisis","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-extreme-weather","14":"tag-forest-fires","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}