The President of the Sicilian government, Renato Schifani, indicated that wildfires engulfing the island have resulted in the deaths of three elderly individuals, amid severe heat waves and strong winds causing significant damage in other areas. Schifani stated in a message overnight, "The extreme heat and unprecedented destructive fires made yesterday, Tuesday, one of the toughest days in decades."
Italian media reports indicated that the charred bodies of a man and his wife, both in their seventies, were found in their burned home on the outskirts of the regional capital, Palermo. Another woman in her late eighties also died in Palermo after an ambulance was unable to reach her home due to the fires in the area. Firefighting teams reported attempting to extinguish nearly 1,400 fires between Sunday and Tuesday, including 650 in Sicily and 390 in Calabria.
