Portugal Battles Wildfires Amid Drought, Heat; 29 Injured

The European Union on Sunday activated its firefighting air fleet assistance program that allows member nations to share resources to help Portugal. Spain, which has also endured wildfires recently, quickly responded by mobilizing two firefighting planes to send to its Iberian neighbor, according to the EU crisis commissioner, Janez Lenarcic. Portugal has long suffered large, and sometimes tragic, forest fires. In 2017, out-of-control wildfires killed more than 100 people. The European Union says climate change has the continent facing one of its hardest years for natural disasters such as droughts and wildfire https://www.voanews.com/a/portugal-battles-wildfires-amid-drought-heat/6652926.html