Turkish authorities evacuate residents as deadly wildfires reach thermal power plant in hillside Aegean province of Mugla
As the Milas mayor announced the evacuation on Twitter, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was speaking live onThree ministers were there to oversee developments. 172 fires brought under control Along with police water cannons, they fought back the flames Tuesday night while other rescuers dug ditches around the Kemerkoy plant.
Villagers have had to evacuate their homes and livestock, while tourists have fled in boats and cars. In the seaside province of Mugla, where tourist hot spot Bodrum is located, seven fires continued on Wednesday. Officials say 172 fires had been brought under control and 15 continued in five provinces. Thousands of firefighters and civilians were working to douse the flames.
The European Union's satellite monitoring service said their "radiative power" –– a measure of the fires' intensity –– "has reached unprecedented values in the entire dataset, which goes back to 2003".
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