Europe is sweltering under an exceptionally hot and arid summer, creating tinderbox conditions for unprecedented fires that have flared from the Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate homes and vacation spots.
The region is already beginning to count the cost of the wildfires this year, the homes lost, people evacuated, and people who've died as a result of them, including three firefighters in Greece.
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