 When Alger's deadly wildfires tore through the forest around their village, brothers Kalaaf and Liazid Sabit could only hustle their families out of the door, but they abandoned the home they shared to the flames. The two men, with their wives and children, are now among hundreds of Algens left homeless by the country's worst fires in memory. It has burned sweats off the not-waste over the past three killing dozens of people. This month, a European Union atmosphere monitor said the Mediterranean had become a wildfire hotspot. Massive blazes engulfed forests in Turkey, Greece and North Africa, aided by a heatwave. The surrounding hills are now a mass of scorched trunks, but beyond the village, another hillside is dark with smoke above the raging flames. So you get notified about fresh news updates.