ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey sent two firefighting aircraft Saturday to help battle wildfires in neighboring Syria as Turkish firefighters battled a blaze on their side of the border and one person was reported dead in the country’s west.

Firefighters in Turkey have contained six of nine wildfires tearing across western Izmir province, officials said on Friday, after the blazes killed two people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes earlier in the week.

Greece is bracing for another sweltering heatwave as heat dome, a high-pressure system that traps hot air like a lid, moves in from Western Europe.Because of intense heat, several wildfires have started both on an island and in town near