{"id":16427,"date":"2025-08-12T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16427"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:04:04","slug":"european-heatwave-sets-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16427","title":{"rendered":"European heatwave sets records"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A young boy died of heatstroke in Italy while wildfires threatened a UNESCO site in Spain and French cities saw record temperatures, as a heatwave baked Europe on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year-old Romanian boy died days after being found unconscious in the family&#8217;s car in Sardinia.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was airlifted to a Rome hospital but died of irreversible brain damage, the hospital told AFP on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as Italy&#8217;s health ministry issued a red alert warning for seven major cities, including Bologna and Florence.<\/p>\n<p>Some 11 Italian cities are on red alert for Tuesday, and 16 cities on Wednesday, while around 190 firefighters and the army continue to tackle a wildfire on Mount Vesuvius that caused the closure of the national park to tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfires damaged a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site in northwestern Spain and forced evacuations in three Balkan countries as high temperatures fanned by strong winds left parts of Europe in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish firefighters struggled to contain a wildfire that damaged a Roman-era mining site in Las Medulas and prompted hundreds of residents to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>High temperatures and winds of up to 40 kilometres per hour (25 mph) created &#8220;many difficulties&#8221;, said Juan Carlos Suarez-Quinones, the Castile and Leon regional environment minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not allow people to return until safety in their communities is absolutely guaranteed,&#8221; he told reporters, estimating that about 700 people had been displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Four people, including two firefighters, suffered minor injuries, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out on Sunday near the Las Medulas area famed for its striking red landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Spain has been in the grip of a heatwave for the past week, with temperatures nearing 40C in many areas and fuelling wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>Castile and Leon alone has seen 13 fires in the past three days, according to Suarez-Quinones, who said that some were believed to have been deliberately started.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young boy died of heatstroke in Italy while wildfires threatened a UNESCO site in Spain and French cities saw record temperatures, as a heatwave baked Europe on Monday. The four-year-old Romanian boy died days after being found unconscious in the family&#8217;s car in Sardinia. The boy was airlifted to a Rome hospital but died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}