Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on August 12, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius (119.84°F) which some scientists believe could be the highest in European history.
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This handout picture taken and released on Aug. 12, 2021 by the Italian Firefighters "Vigili del Fuoco" shows a firefighters combating the fire of vegetation and Mediterranean scrub in some rural areas near the countryside of road 128 in "Sa Ceraxia" territory of the municipality of Mandas on the Italian Sardinia Island.
