Overview

• Turkey has opened prosecutions against 99 suspects over suspected wildfire starts, with President Erdogan saying that 96% of blazes stem from human activity.
• Bulgarian Interior Ministry charged a 33-year-old suspect with terrorism after CCTV captured him igniting grass fires as firefighters battled more than 160 wildfires.
• Seventeen people, including ten volunteer firefighters and forestry workers, have been killed in Turkey’s wildfire response operations.
• More than 3,600 residents were evacuated in and around Bursa and 19 villages in the Safranbolu region when fires advanced.
• EU Civil Protection Mechanism has deployed waterbombing planes and helicopters to support firefighting efforts in Bulgaria, Portugal and Greece.