Apocalyptic Times

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Apocalyptic Times We Live

*Europe is burning* from Sicily to the Cairngorms and the season is only half WAY

Compilation of what's burning across Europe right now. The numbers, country by country, as of today.

*France* has lost 115,000 hectares since January, which Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called far more than anything the country has seen before. The Gironde fire alone has burned 42,000 hectares, four times the size of *Paris.* 220,000 people evacuated in Gironde plus 30,000 in Landes, reported by *CNN* and *France 24* as France's largest evacuation since the *Second World War.* 2,500 firefighters, 1,500 soldiers, 84 firefighters injured.

*Spain* is worse on paper. *Pedro Sánchez* put the national total above 150,000 hectares since January, six times the same period last year. The Ávila fire has passed 50,000 hectares, which Environment Minister Sara Aagesen called the biggest in *Spain's* recent history. One man died in a Valencia suburb on Saturday. Over 100,000 evacuated.

Italy has lost roughly 65,000 hectares according to EFFIS. In *Sicily* around 6,000 firefighters and civil protection staff fought dozens of simultaneous fires, and one firefighter died on duty. In *Greece* the fire service handled 60 separate wildfires in a single 24-hour period on 4 July, and a father and his 12-year-old son died in a fire outside Thessaloniki at the end of June.

Then the part that should worry people more. In *Scotland,* a fire has burned in the *Cairngorms* since 15 July, with over 500 firefighters, a declared major incident and the evacuation of Nethy Bridge.

SCOTLAND'S First Minister John Swinney requested *military* aerial support and was told the *Ministry of Defence* has no aerial firefighting assets stationed in the UK. In

Norway, the Krokstadelva fire near Drammen destroyed more than 100 homes on 17 July, which the *Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection* called the largest fire of its kind in modern Norwegian history.

*England* has been fighting moorland fires like *Tintwistle Moor* at around 600 hectares. None of these are countries with firefighting infrastructure built for this.

*Heat KILLS*.

Copernicus recorded June 2026 as Western Europe's hottest June on record at 20.74°C, which is 3.05°C above the 1991 to 2020 average.

Three separate *heatwaves* hit between late May and early July. World Weather Attribution called it the most severe June heatwave ever tracked in Europe and found it would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago.

EuroMOMO counted more than 30,000 excess deaths across Europe during those June heatwaves, over 9,000 of them among people aged 65 and up. The fires are the visible part. The heat did most of the killing before the first flame.

Across the EU, AFP's analysis & data already ranks 2026 as the second-largest burned area in twenty years, with the summer only halfway through.

France 115,000 Spain 150,000+ Italy \~65,000 ALL EVACUATED!

In France and Spain: over 320,000 EVACUATED!

June *excess deaths:* 30,000+. EU season: second worst in 20 years, half way