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France records around 1,000 additional deaths as extreme heat breaks European records 55%
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER0% JOHN LEICESTER0%
6/28/2026, 11:23:40 AM
Keywords: France, Europe, Climate Change, Berlin, Germany, Weather, Eurocopa, Heat Waves, Health, Climate, Wildfires, World Health Organization, Fires, Climate And Environment
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BERLIN (AP) — France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization warned that Europe is now the fastest-warming continent and needs to do more to protect its citizens.
Temperature records were toppled in several countries on the weekend, wildfires were sparked in Germany and Berlin police used water cannons to cool down the crowds.
Meanwhile, the heat wave slowly moved toward eastern parts of the continent.
Germany marked a new record for the third day in a row with 41.7 degrees Celsius (107 degrees Fahrenheit) in Neißemünde, near the border with Poland, which baked under its new all-time high of 40.5 C (104.9 F).
The Czech Republic also experienced its hottest day ever with 41.9 C (107.4 F), up from the previous record of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 F) on Saturday.
A new study from the World Weather Attribution, a Europe-based collaboration of scientists, reported Friday that the record-breaking heat and humidity in Europe this past week would not have been possible without climate change.
The rapid study found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.
“Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Sunday on X.
“Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling.”
Heat stress is often called the ‘silent killer’ — and European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures,” Tedros said as he called on European countries to implement action plans.
He said they should focus on preparedness, prevention and stronger health system responses.
In Sweden, several people were injured when they were hit by lightning at an amusement park, the country’s TT news agency reported.
Three adults were taken to the hospital, among them a woman with serious injuries, after the lightning struck the Tosselilla Sommarland park in Tomelilla in the south of the country.
Across Europe, the extreme heat has been followed by severe thunderstorms.
Denmark, which marked new temperature records on Saturday, recorded 1,156 lighting strikes by Sunday morning, according to public broadcaster DR.
In Gohrischheide, in eastern Germany, a fire broke out in a large forest that’s still contaminated with ammunition from World War II, complicating efforts by firefighters.
Similarly, a major firefighting operation was underway in southwest Germany near the village of Traisen, where the heat sparked a forest fire in an area that also contained unexploded ordnance.
Firefighters had to stop work temporarily after explosions took place and an ordnance disposal unit was brought in to continuously assess the situation, German news agency dpa reported.
Some 650 people in Traisen had to leave their homes Sunday afternoon because the fire continued to spread.
Fire departments in the big cities were busy sending out ambulances to people suffering from heat-related illnesses.
In Berlin, an additional 500 ambulance dispatches were reported on Saturday, most of them heat-related.
Leicester reported from Paris.
Associated Press writer Karel Janicek in Prague contributed to this report.
The heat also worsened damage to infrastructure, with the concrete surface on countless highways breaking up, and a weekend warning by national rail operator Deutsche Bahn to avoid all unnecessary train travel.
More than 600 passengers had to be evacuated from an overheated train in Brandenburg after a tree fell onto an overhead power line during a storm on Saturday evening.
The train, which was on its way from Hamburg to Prague, lost power.
The air conditioners stopped working and the doors were locked until emergency responders forced them open.
Two people were hospitalized with heat-related problems, dpa reported.
In the eastern city of Leipzig, no trams will be running until early Monday morning due to heat damage to tracks and switches.
The Leipzig Public Transportation Authority said that the high temperatures had caused the joint sealant for asphalt and concrete in switches and tracks to run and clump together in many places throughout the city’s network.
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