A wildfire killed a bedridden man who was home alone in Turkey's western Izmir province after it spread to a residential area, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Thursday (July 3), the first casualty after nearly a week of scattered blazes.

The man, 81, was killed in the Odemis district where firefighters battled the blaze for a second day, with several helicopters and other aircraft dropping water on the mountainous terrain amid billowing smoke.

Authorities closed some roads to the Aegean resort town of Cesme due to fire, Anadolu said. Broadcasters showed footage of flames across parts of the main highway as water tankers arrived.

Some 50,000 people were temporarily evacuated earlier in the week due to fires, which were stoked by high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds. Some have been contained.

Other blazes also broke out on Thursday in the southern resort province of Antalya and just outside Istanbul.

Turkey's coastal regions have in recent years been ravaged by wildfires as summers have become hotter and drier, which scientists say is a result of human-induced climate change.

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1. VARIOUS OF WILDFIRE BURNING FROM HIGHWAY (MUTE)

2.HELICOPTERS DROPPING WATER AS SMOKE RISES

3. WILDFIRE BURNING / SMOKE RISING

4, VARIOUS OF HELICOPTERS DROPPING WATER AS SMOKE RISES

5. PEOPLE WALKING ON HIGHWAY / EMERGENCY WORKERS TRYING TO PUT OUT FIRE IN BACKGROUND

6. EMERGENCY WORKERS TRYING TO OUT OUT SMOKE / FLAMES RISING

7. VARIOUS OF WILDFIRE BURNING

8. EMERGENCY WORKERS STANDING ON HIGHWAY AS FLAMES RISE BEHIND

9. VARIOUS OF WILDFIRE BURNING

10. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY VEHICLE DOUSING WATER ON FLAMES

11. HELICOPTERS DROPPING WATER AS SMOKE RISES

12. WILDFIRE BURNING

ANTALYA, TURKEY (July 3, 2025) (FORESTRY MANAGEMENT - Access All) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT)

13. WILDFIRE SEEN FROM AIRCRAFT

14. VARIOUS OF AIRCRAFT HOSING WATER ON FIRE

15. WILDFIRE SEEN FROM AIRCRAFT

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16. PLANE DROPPING WATER ON FIRE

17. AIRCRAFT HOSING WATER ON FIRE

ANTALYA, TURKEY (July 3, 2025) (FORESTRY MANAGEMENT - Access All) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT)

18. AIRCRAFT HOSING WATER ON FIRE