What the records say
- When
- 3 Jul 2021
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Coordinates
- 34.68° N, 33.04° E
- Description
- series of wildfires in Cyprus in 2021
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2021 Limassol wildfires
Series of wildfires in Cyprus in 2021
On 3 July 2021, wildfires broke out near the Cypriot village of Arakapas during a week-long heat wave that saw temperatures surpass 40 °C. The fires spread throughout the Limassol District before being put out two days later with assistance from Greece, Israel, Italy, and the United Kingdom. They were described as the worst fires in the country's history.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “During a week-long heat wave that sees temperatures surpass 40 °C (104 °F), wildfires break out in Limassol District, leading to the deaths of four Egyptian…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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