Firefighters contain wildfires in Turkey's Izmir and Bolu provinces

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00:00The hills of Izmir, on Turkey's Aegean coast, blackened by the flames.

00:04Vegetation here has been ravaged by wildfire over the past several days.

00:09Residents who had been evacuated finding nothing but ruins upon their return.

00:15It was a disaster when the fire broke out.

00:18We tried to intervene as much as we could but we failed.

00:21We couldn't save the animals.

00:22We lost them all.

00:24I had 12 sheep.

00:26I also had chickens and dogs.

00:28They all burned.

00:30Farming and livestock are a critical source of revenues here.

00:34To try and save their belongings, some residents had defied authorities' evacuation orders

00:39and returned home as the fire swept through.

00:44The gendarmerie forced us out.

00:46We came back illegally to save our village.

00:50If we had not stayed, this village would have been completely gone.

00:55Victims now counting on government compensation to help them recover.

01:00The fires are Turkey's worst of the season so far.

01:04They broke out late Thursday, at one point threatening the city of Izmir,

01:08the third most populous in the country.

01:10Nearly two dozen buildings were damaged there.

01:13No human fatalities have been reported.

01:16Several people have been detained in connection with the fires.

01:20Low humidity, high temperatures and strong winds

01:23continuing to raise the risk of wildfires in northwest Turkey over the coming days

01:28as climate change exacerbates fire risk across the Mediterranean region.

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