Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The European Commission is deploying firefighting aircraft to Spain, where at least seven have died as 14 wildfires have flared amid a European heat wave.
The commission is sending an unknown number of water-bombing planes to help put out the wildfires in Spain and wildfire-impacted areas in the Balkans, The Guardian reported on Saturday.
The announcement came after a volunteer firefighter died on Thursday while fighting a wildfire in northern Spain's Castile and Leon region.
A total of seven people have died in the Spanish wildfires along the nation's northern coastal areas, the BBC reported.
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