Flaming Hell in Southern Europe – Shocking Video shows car that drives through fire

It is a shocking video that has reached us from Portugal. It shows you what a ride through hell should look like.

At the end of the week, the driver or co -driver filmed how he got closer to the Sea of ​​Flames on the A1 and crossed it directly through the flaring flames.

659 heat dead
The temperatures in Portugal have fallen a bit, but according to the authorities there were two forest fires in the north on Sunday.

The Portuguese Ministry of Health announced on Saturday evening that the last seven days 659 people have died as a result of the heat wave, most of them elderly people. Thursday was the temperature in different regions above 40 degrees Celsius and at a weather station in the central Viseu district 47 degrees Celsius.

Affected tourist resort
In Spain, helicopters dropped water on the flames, while the scorching heat and often mountainous site made the lives of firefighters difficult. The National Weather Agency Aemet issued a heat warning on Sunday and predicted maximum temperatures of 42 degrees in Aragon, Navarra and La Rioja in the North. The authority said the heat wave would end on Monday. The temperatures remained “unusually high”.

Spain has been dealing with a heat wave with maxima of 45.7 degrees for almost a week. In the province of Malaga, the forest fires raged until Sunday night, whereby the residents of Mijas, a popular tourist destination, were also struck.

14,000 people have fled
On the southern French atlantic coast, other people were brought to safety on Sunday evening by a forest fire. The re-flashing of the fire again endangered campsites in the Teste-Buch area south of Bordeaux, said the responsible prefecture. According to figures from Saturday evening, more than 14,000 people in the area and in nearby Landiras had to leave their houses or holiday resorts due to fires. The flames destroyed 10,500 hectares of land in the two areas. The fires on dry soil were driven by bright and changeable winds.

Since Tuesday, the fire brigade has tried in vain to get the flames under control. According to the prefecture, the situation in Teste-de-Buch remains unfavorable. At Landiras the situation is stable, at least in some parts of the fire edge.

Extreme drought
In Italy, firefighters fought burning at various places in the country on Sunday. In Sicily, the emergency services at Palermo have been pulled back to a fire in Montelepre. According to media reports, two extinguishing aircraft and a helicopter support the helpers on the floor. With three simultaneous fires in different places you know for sure that it was not a self -ignition, the mayor said there. Italy has been struggling for weeks with extreme drought throughout the country, which is beneficial for the flames. In many parts of the country there is an increased risk of forest fires.

To the south of the city of L’Aquila in Abruzzo, a firefighter from Rome supported three fire brigade units on the ground when fighting a forest fire there. The rescue workers in the municipality of Vinci also responded to a natural fire near Florence, who, according to media reports, also threatened a residential building. After the big fire in a walking and ski area to the east of Trento in Trentino, Northern Italian, only small flames burned there on Sunday. There too, an airplane went out of the air.

Situation in Bibione under control
In Bibione, the situation after the extensive forest and forest fire on the beach of the northern Italian Adriatic seaside resort is under control again. Countless tourists reported to the authorities on Saturday for concern that they could not spend their vacation there because of the fires, the media reported. Tourist facilities were not affected by the flames. Only the ferry to Lignano is currently not sailing because the fire in some places a jetty destroyed and holidaymakers no longer came on the boat.

In Greece, more than 150 firefighters were fighting a fire on Sunday that had set fire to forest and agricultural land at Rethymno on the island of Crete since Friday. The flames were fueled by strong wind. According to the local fire brigade, the fire was partly under control.

The Greek fire brigade remains the risk of forest fires in many parts of Greece as “very high”. Especially the Attica region with the capital Athens and the islands of Eboea, Crete, Lesbos and Samos and the northeast of the Peloponnosos peninsula were hit on Monday, tweeted the fire brigade on Sunday. 119 forest fires have been registered in Greece from Saturday to Sunday. Most fires are extinguished fairly quickly, but some grow into large fires.