However, outrage over the official response to the European summer fires erupted when French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu visited a village devastated by a forest fire, where he was booed.
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Below is the latest information on the fires in Europe.
Rain aid in Belgium
Rain that began falling in Belgium on Monday is helping to fight the largest fire in the country in recent times, which has devastated about 3,000 hectares in the High Fens park near the German border.
About 500 firefighters and soldiers are battling the flames, which have created a huge cloud of black smoke stretching over the region into neighboring Germany and France.
Air force reinforcements were sent to Belgium on Monday to help combat the large forest fire.
According to officials, the fire’s spread remained limited overnight, although there was a risk of the fire spreading into Germany.
Helicopters from Norway and Germany joined the fleet of aircraft carrying water to hard-to-reach areas.
The German town of Monschau, near the border, ordered nearly 30 people living on two streets right by the border to evacuate.
Greece contained deadly fire
The fire service reported on Monday that two fires on the Greek island of Salamis near Athens, which claimed two lives and forced the evacuation of nearly 600 residents by boat, have been essentially extinguished.
The fires broke out on Sunday near overcrowded beaches on the island west of Athens, popular among day-trippers.
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Although the civil protection agency issued evacuation orders, the fire department said that due to strong winds, the fire spread in just seven minutes and trapped an elderly couple near their home.
Booed French Prime Minister
About 200 people in the French village of Le Porzho, where 183 homes were destroyed last month in a massive forest fire, booed Prime Minister S. Lecornu on Monday as he arrived for a visit to the devastated western Gironde region.
French officials reported that 250 people evacuated due to another still-burning fire in the Landes region will be able to return to their homes in the village of Liuglon, as the fire has been brought under control.
Death in Spain
A Spanish soldier died on Sunday while helping to extinguish a large forest fire in Aragon, the head of this northeastern region reported, with officials deploying the largest firefighting arsenal in the region’s history.
France sent reinforcements to help control a forest fire that broke out on Monday, threatening a 1,000-year-old monastery. Hundreds of people were evacuated.
Fires in Portugal
Hundreds of firefighters in Portugal are battling a series of fires.
In one near the village of Dino, located on the border with Spain, five firefighters suffered minor injuries when their vehicle caught fire, the media reported.
Firefighters fought several other fires near the Spanish border, including in Boticas and Chaves, the civil protection agency ANEPC reported.
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