VIDEO | Wildfires in Italy's Sicily put lives in danger, people flee island

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Wildfires raging across Italy's Sicily have endangered the lives of the residents of the island..

Posting the video on Twitter, a user wrote, Extremely dangerous situation in Sicily..

Wildfires on the Italian island of Sicily have killed three elderly people till now..

Speaking about the incident, Sicilian President Renato Schifani said "scorching heat and unprecedented devastating fires" had turned Tuesday into "one of the most difficult days in decades"...

Italian firefighters reported that they fought close to 1,400 fires from Sunday to Tuesday, with approximately 650 of them occurring in Sicily and 390 in Calabria...

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