“We wanted to leave the house, but then the flames were behind the door,” a resident told Live Sicilia television.
Things could hardly be worse for Italy and its Mediterranean neighbors this month.
Wildfires and successive heat waves transformed their summer paradises into ghoulish hellscapes.
And if it was not the heat, it was hail — the size of billiards in northern Italy — as the country ricocheted between weather extremes.
But the many tourists who had come looking for a summer holiday found an inferno, and there was more than a hint of buyer’s remorse.
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Live Sicilia, Italy —
Locations:
Palermo, Italy, Greece