雖然有消防直升機的支援，但在南歐眾多地區延燒的森林大火，已成為上千名消防隊員的大敵。炎熱的高溫讓2007年夏季的森林大火更加嚴重，在此同時，消防官和政治人物也同聲譴責釀成嚴重災情的蓄意縱火犯。
雖然熱浪已侵襲科索沃數週之久，農民們仍然遵循傳統，收割後在農地上燃燒剩餘的稻草，導致科索沃各地野火延燒。
南歐各國正奮力對抗野火以及狂飆到攝氏40度（華氏104度）以上的的高溫，這樣的高溫也導致希臘和義大利出現森林大火。
世界自然基金會(WWF)估計，近幾週的大火已燒毀義大利境內超過9000公頃的自然保育區，WWF也表示，大火撲滅後進行損害的評估，將會讓此數值再向上攀升。
在過去1個月內，歐洲執委會監控資訊中心已收到來自希臘、塞普路斯、義大利、保加利亞和馬其頓等8個救援請求，尋求協助對抗在南歐肆虐的森林大火。
Wildfires blazing across much southern Europe have become the enemy for thousands of firefighters supported by water-dropping helicopters. Extreme heat has made this summer's forest fires particularly severe, with emergency officials as well as politicians blaming arsonists for sparking some of the worst ones.
Despite a heat wave that has gripped Kosovo for weeks, farmers are conforming to tradition and burning the leftover straw in their fields after the harvest, sparking spontaneous wildfires all over Kosovo.
Southern European countries are battling blazes and blistering temperatures that have soared above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees F), torching wildfires in Greece and Italy.
WWF estimates that in recent weeks the fires have destroyed more than 9,000 hectares of Italy's protected natural areas, a figure the group says will rise once it assesses the damages after the fires are extinguished.
In the past 30 days, the European Commission's Monitoring and Information Centre has received a total of eight requests for assistance from Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Bulgaria and, most recently the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - to help combat the forest fires raging across Southern Europe.
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