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Huge fires erupted around Bursa, the fourth largest city in Turki, during the weekend, which led to more than 3,500 people fleeing their homes. On Monday morning, fog -like smoke from fire and amazing trees is attached to the city.

The high temperatures were unreasonable, dry conditions, and strong winds nourish forest fires, as Turkish and other parts of the Mediterranean suffer from standard heat waves.

The number of deaths from forest fires increased outside the city of Bursa in northwest Turki to the fourth late Sunday after the death of volunteer firefighters.

The husband died in the hospital after they were withdrawn from a water tanker who rolled while she was heading to the forest fire, according to IHA News Agency. Another worker died earlier at the scene, and a firefighter died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack.

Their death has sparked the death of Turkiye in Al -Hashim to 17 since late June, including 10 rescue volunteers and forest workers who were killed on Wednesday in a fire in the northwestern city of Esciesel.

The fires around Bursa were among the hundreds who hit the country during the past month. While firefighting teams have contained damage to a limited number of houses, vast areas of forests have turned into ash.

Forests Minister Ibrahim Yumkli said that Turki fought at least 44 separate fires on Sunday. Identified two fires in Borsa County, as well as fire in Karabuk in the northwest, and Kahramanmaras in the south, as the most dangerous.

The government declared disaster areas in two western provinces, Isder and Biliesic. Justice Minister Yelmaz Tonk said the prosecutions were launched against 97 people in 33 Turkish provinces 81 regarding fires.