00:00Extreme heat and environmental hazards are putting severe pressure on emergency services
00:04across southern Europe.
00:06In Spain's Zamora province, emergency crews responded to a major fire at the Zaresa waste
00:11treatment plant in Roales del Palo.
00:14Dispatches received nearly 40 emergency calls prompting authorities to issue toxic cloud
00:18warnings and close a lane on the A11 motorway.
00:22Beyond the industrial emergency in Spain, severe heat across France forced nuclear operator
00:27EDF to shut down three reactors at the Shos and Katynon plants due to low river water
00:33levels.
00:34Hungary's only nuclear plant is also under strain due to low water levels in the Danube.
00:40The environmental crisis deepened further south in Greece, where senior meteorologist
00:44Theodor Gennaros declared the current wildfire disaster one of the worst in a decade.
00:49The fires claimed five lives over the past fortnight, with Copernicus data confirming over
00:5412,000 hectares of land burned in a single week.
00:58Officials will conduct a comprehensive quantitative assessment once the fire season concludes.
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