Fast-growing Belgium wildfire burns at least 1,600 hectares

Fires are raging from Belgium to Greece as Europe suffers one of its most severe wildfire seasons to date. The blazes come amid frequent heat waves and drought that studies say are driven by human-induced climate change.

One of Belgium's biggest-ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain eased conditions for firefighters, while in Greece a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Athens.

Two villages on Belgian side evacuated and residents told not to return as fire gets very close to German border

Couple die in Salamis, while multinational forces and local farmers tackle Belgium’s biggest fire in a century near Liège An elderly couple died in fires on the Greek island of Salamis on Sunday and a fire ravaged Belgium’s largest nature reserve, in the latest wave of European…

Water-bombing aircraft and farmers' tractors joined forces Sunday to help firefighters tame Belgium's largest modern-day wildfire, which has scorched vast swaths of a hard-to-reach nature reserve near the German border.

Efforts to extinguish the blaze are complicated by irregular winds and difficult terrain.

• Brussels activates EU emergency protocols as nation’s largest blaze scorches 1,600 hectares; water bombers, helicopters deployed from across Europe • Western German inferno stabilises after 2,000 residents flee village • Scientists, officials tie worsening fire risk, heat to…

Belgium: Belgian firefighters backed by water bombers and helicopters were battling a rapidly spreading wildfire on Saturday at a natural park near the German border that ravaged at least 16 square kilometres (six square miles) in 24 hours.Reinforcements have been called in from…

Fast-growing Belgium wildfire burns at least 1,600 hectares