European authorities are battling dozens of wildfires stretching from the Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans, with Croatian police arresting four suspects accused of deliberately igniting blazes near Zadar that forced the evacuation of some 2,000 people and killed one person near Omiš.
In Germany's Eifel region, the largest wildfire in North Rhine-Westphalia's history has scorched roughly 300 hectares, with army tanks deployed to cut firebreaks, while in France, a blaze in the Landes department has consumed up to 1,600 hectares of pine forest. Spain's Aragón fire has burned more than 16,000 hectares and forced a thousand evacuations, and in Belgium, a fire in the Fagnes reserve has charred over 2,700 hectares.
Greece has recorded more than 50 agro-forest fires in 24 hours, while Serbia's Deliblatska Peščara reserve is ablaze across 2,500 hectares.