Thousands of firefighters continue to battle wildfires in Portugal that have killed seven people and burnt more land in a matter of days than the rest of the summer combined. Scientists say that fossil fuel emissions are worsening the length, frequency and intensity of heatwaves across the world. The rising temperatures are leading to longer wildfire seasons and increasing the area burnt in the flames, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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00:00The fire is right behind me and this is not easy, it is not easy to fight this fire because
00:29there is a lot of mist and the firemen are few and I don't know what else I can say.
00:37It was a panic, they sent me home because of a well, but I never saw such a thing,
00:44I never saw it.
00:45This was all over the place and the plane didn't come, the plane couldn't come either,
00:53there were those big planes, there was that water, now there was a small flood, poor thing,
01:02what can you pay for that?
01:23I don't know.