00:00Two helicopters collided while battling Greece's wildfire near Athens on Sunday, according to the fire service.
00:08Firefighters in Greece continued to battle flames on multiple fronts as gale-force winds drove wildfires to spread further, devastating
00:15swathes of forest and agricultural land.
00:19In the western Attica region that includes Athens, wildfires continued to rage in several villages, including the towns of Porto
00:26Germeno and Megara.
00:28A new fire broke out late on Saturday on the island of Cephalonia, while another blaze continued to spread in
00:34the northern Peloponnese.
00:36Meanwhile, the Gironde megafire in France remained contained but was still burning after scorching 42,000 hectares of forest in
00:43just 10 days.
00:45The fire in the southeastern Var region is still under close surveillance as firefighters managed to stem its advance.
00:53Spain also continues to grapple with new flare-ups, but the national state of emergency declared on Thursday has been
00:59lifted.
01:01Europe is the world's fastest warming continent, heating up at more than twice the global average since the 1980s due
01:07to human-caused climate change,
01:09which has doubled the likelihood of the extreme fire conditions.
01:12Europe is brought to the
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