Flames have ravaged cities and forests throughout Southern Europe, and while no casualties have been reported, the situation is becoming increasingly untenable with temperatures reaching 46C.
Torrential rains have devastated the Black Sea provinces of Bartin, Kastamonu and Sinop since Wednesday. President Erdogan visited victims in Bozkurt on Friday.
The planes will be deployed in the Kabylia region Thursday, said a European Commission press release, noting that the Commission co-finances up to 75 percent of the transport costs of the deployment.
ROME. KAZINFORM Firefighters are battling hundreds of blazes that are being helped by the Lucifer heatwave and are devouring many hectares of forest in various parts of Italy on Thursday, with Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia and Campania hit especially hard.