(ANSA) - Brussels, August 7 - Italy has had 371 forest fires
so far this summer, the highest number in the European Union,
according to an updated map of the situation produced by the
European Commission's Emergency Response Coordination Centre. It
said that Italy was second in terms of the area of land burned,
72,039 hectares, compared to 115,323 hectares in Portugal.
Italy top in EU for 2017 forest fires
Second to Portugal in terms of area burned