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Overnight fires in the forested mountains surrounding Bursa, in northwest Turkey,
spread rapidly, tinting the night sky over the city’s eastern suburbs with a red glow.
Dozens of severe wildfires have hit the country daily since late June,
with the government declaring the two western provinces of Izmir and Bilecik as disaster areas on Friday.

Bursa governor’s office said in a statement Sunday that 1,765 people had been safely evacuated from villages to the northeast
as more than 1,900 firefighters battled the flames.
The highway linking Bursa to the capital, Ankara, was closed as surrounding forests burned.
A firefighter died from a heart attack while on the job, the city’s mayor, Mustafa Bozbey, said in a statement,
adding that the flames had scorched 3,000 hectares (7,413 acres) around the city.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/flames-threaten-turkeys-4th-largest-city-as-southern-europe-grapples-with-wildfires