On the Foreign Scene
In Milan, residents and tourists have been warned to stay indoors during the hottest hours as the second heat wave in as many weeks hits the region and Greece, Spain and Switzerland battled wildfires.
In Italy, civil protection workers monitored crowds for people in distress from the heat in central Rome, while Red Cross teams in Portugal took to social media to warn people not to leave pets or children in parked cars. In Greece, volunteers handed out drinking water, and in Spain they reminded people to protect themselves from breathing in smoke from fires.
According to Panu Saaristo, the emergency health team leader for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, during a Geneva briefing, heat waves are really an invisible killer. He said they are experiencing hotter and hotter temperatures for
longer stretches of time every single summer here in Europe.
The new heat wave in several parts of southern Europe is expected to persist for days.
According to the U.N. weather agency said that temperatures in Europe, amplified by climate change, could break the 48.8-degree Celsius record set in Sicily two years ago.
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