Marcin Pater, an emergency response officer at DG ECHO’s Emergency Response Coordinate Centre, and Pádraic Fogarty, campaigns officer with the Irish Wildlife Trust explore the issue of wildfires from both an Irish and European perspective. What is being done to help country’s battle these fires, and what type of impact have we seen on the ground in Ireland?

The fire was raging in the Aragon region where around 300 firefighters are trying to contain the blaze.

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The fires have been burning in several areas since Thursday, destroying at least two homes.

Groves of gigantic sequoias could be in the path of the wildfires.

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Nearly 73,000 forest fires have been reported in the country so far this year.

The forest fire is spreading through Catalonia.

Earlier reports had suggested a plane had crashed while attempting to battle the blazes.

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Around 200 people have fled from the fires with emergency services still grappling to control the fire from spreading.

High to extreme risk conditions for fire will persist until the coming weekend at least, according to Met Éireann’s fire weather index.

The Air Corps AW 139 helicopter has so far been successful in containing the spread of the fires near Glengesh in south Donegal.

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The fires which hit various parts of the country earlier this month did €5 million worth of damage to State owned forests with a further €2.4 million worth of damage inflicted on privately owned forests.

Coillte estimates that it will take this much to cover the extra expense from fire fighting, replacement of trees lost and forgone revenue from timber.

Around €3.5m worth of damage caused by blazes – some deliberately set – on lands and in wooded areas.

Israel’s prime minister is refusing any further foreign firefighting assistance as blaze being brought under control.

Over 40 people have been killed and 13,000 evacuated as fires continue to rage in the north of Israel.

Israeli and Turkish prime ministers have their first phone conversation since 2009 in wake of fires which have killed 42 people.