As the official death toll from Greece’s wildfires mounted on Tuesday, it became clear this was a national tragedy of a kind awfully familiar to Australians. …The fire is the latest, and most tragic, result of a heatwave that has baked Europe this summer, setting temperature records and starting fires from Norway to Spain. Sweden has lost an estimated 30,000 hectares of forest in wildfires across the country which were still burning on Tuesday. …Fires have also ravaged woods and grassland in northern Finland near the Russian border, Latvia has lost more than 800 hectares in fires that have raged for almost a week, and a Norwegian firefighter died last week trying to contain a wildfire. …An EU-commissioned report predicted new “forest fire danger extremes” due to climate change in Europe. …Another report said Mediterranean countries were already seeing more… droughts, lower crop yields, forest fires and heatwave deaths.