A new report highlights the growing insurance crisis playing out in parts of the country that are prone to frequent weather disasters.

Three fires were of great concern on Tuesday morning, with over 2,200 firefighters on the ground, 672 fire engines and 21 aerial resources deployed.

Greece, Turkey, and parts of Southern Europe are battling massive wildfires as the region experiences a significant heatwave.

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Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing more than 1,700 people to flee their homes and leaving a firefighter dead.

Officials warned young children and those with respiratory illnesses to take precautions. For weeks, smoke from Canadian wildfires has been drifting across the border.

David Walters represented the firefighting brotherhood earlier this month when he was presented with the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2025 ESPY Awards.

Turkey faced a “very risky week” for wildfires, an official said Monday, as blazes across parts of southeast Europe and the Balkans damaged homes and led to a huge firefighting operation that included evacuations.

One fire was taken care of, crews said. The small Oak Point Fire that started south of the White Sage Fire burn area was contained at 85 acres.

A fire at the foot of the Pirin mountain in southwestern Bulgaria was spreading across thousands of acres of forest, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reported. Another fire in the town of Simitli destroyed several houses as it spread towards the Maleshevo Mountain.

After extreme heat hits many parts of southern Europe in another heatwave, conditions should improve for holidaymakers.