A record-breaking hot and dry summer tightened its grip on Europe on Monday, as water-dropping planes swooped over a major wildfire in Greece, firefighters in France sought to stabilize a blaze in Provence, and much of the United Kingdom recorded its driest July in nearly two centuries.<\/p>\n
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Wildfires west of Athens jumped containment lines a day after\u00a0a midair collision\u00a0between two helicopters killed two crew members. A Greek and a Danish national died and two others were hospitalized following the collision on Sunday.<\/p>\n
All four were private operators chartered by the Greek firefighting service.<\/p>\n
In France, firefighters in the region around Bordeaux guarded against potential flare-ups inside a still-burning scar\u00a0four times the size of Paris.<\/p>\n
A prolonged heat wave and lack of rainfall led to the driest July in England and Wales in nearly 200 years of recordkeeping, according to provisional statistics, the U.K.\u2019s weather service said Monday.<\/p>\n
All of Wales and more than half of England are officially in drought, the Met Office said. The dry spell was accompanied by sweltering temperatures across much of the U.K., following heat waves in May and June.<\/p>\n
Wales tied its record for its warmest mean temperature for July while England and the U.K. recorded their second-warmest July.<\/p>\n
The Athens region remains at high risk with hundreds evacuated<\/h4>\n
Strong winds returned to southern Greece late on Monday, pushing flames into mountain home clusters, destroying farms and property, and closing a highway.<\/p>\n
Areas surrounding the Greek capital remain at high risk through the week with temperatures set to rise further. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from around the seaside resort of Porto Germeno and other areas west of the capital \u2014 including more than 250 rescued by boats from beaches in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a difficult fire that has troubled us,\u201d Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said, adding that 12 water-dropping planes and 11 helicopters were operating in the area Monday.<\/p>\n
The blaze was blamed on a faulty power line from a wind farm and led to the arrests of two contractors on charges of negligent arson.<\/p>\n
Despite improved detection methods and expanded cooperation among European Union members, Greece and other countries along Europe\u2019s Mediterranean coast suffer devastating wildfires every summer as spells of heat wave temperatures grow longer.<\/p>\n
Europe is Earth\u2019s\u00a0fastest-warming continent, heating at more than twice the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union\u2019s Copernicus climate service. Rising temperatures and prolonged drought leave vegetation drier and more combustible, allowing fires to spread faster and burn more intensely.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s massive blaze is contained as evacuees return home<\/h4>\n
Thousands of evacuees were allowed to return home or to their holiday accommodations in France on Monday after a massive wildfire remained contained. More than 224,000 people had fled in what officials said was the country\u2019s\u00a0largest civilian evacuation outside wartime.<\/p>\n
The wildfire burned about 420 square kilometers (162 square miles), making it France\u2019s largest wildfire on record. Monday\u2019s return includes Cap Ferret peninsula, a tourist hot spot along the Atlantic coast, and Le Porge, the municipality hardest hit by the fire, where 183 homes were destroyed. Campsites remain closed.<\/p>\n
A second wildfire in Provence did not flare up overnight, but was still not contained on Monday as stronger winds were expected, firefighters and authorities said. About 1,500 firefighters, supported by water-dropping helicopters, continued reinforcing fire lines along the blaze that tore through about 18 square kilometers (7 square miles).<\/p>\n
The European Forest Fire Information System said the risk of wildfire remains high across parts of the continent through Aug. 5, including in traditionally cooler northern countries.<\/p>\n
Firefighters in the Netherlands were battling a large blaze on Monday in a forest in the southern province of Limburg, authorities said, as the country sweltered through another day of hot, dry summer weather. The national railway operator halted trains between two towns in the area due to the fire.<\/p>\n
The Dutch air force sent two Chinook helicopters equipped with large water containers to help firefighters tackle the blaze. Media reported that a campsite in the area was evacuated due to poor air quality caused by a large plume of smoke.<\/p>\n
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Corbet reported from Paris. Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Athens; Thomas Adamson in Paris; Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, and Brian Melley in London contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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