Turkish blaze approaches power plant as wildfires enter 10th day

MILAS, Turkey: A forest fire was coming closer to a power station in southwest Turkey on Friday, local officials said, a day after firefighters brought a blaze under control around another nearby plant, as an outbreak of wildfires entered its 10th day.

Tens of thousands of hectares of forest have been destroyed in Mediterranean and Aegean provinces in what President Tayyip Erdogan has called Turkey's worst ever wildfires. Eight people have died and thousands of Turks and tourists have fled. One fire in the province of Mugla, where major tourist resorts Bodrum and Marmaris are located, was burning some 5 km (3 miles) away from the coal-fired Yenikoy power station, a forestry agency official said.