---
title: "Videos of Turkish Wildfires Are Like a Vision of Hell"
description: "Videos on social media show devastating Turkish wildfires -- and could be a terrifying harbinger of what's to come for the rest of us."
date: "2021-08-04"
modified: "2021-08-04"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/videos-turkish-wildfires-vision-hell"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "the digest"
  - "turkey"
  - "wildfires"
---

# Videos of Turkish Wildfires Are Like a Vision of Hell

![A new video making its round son social media shows how the devastating wildfires in southern Turkey have become.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/videos-turkish-wildfires-vision-hell.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire-Forest.jpg" target="\_blank"\>Cameron Strandberg\</a\>\</em\>*

## Fire Beach

New videos show how the devastating wildfires in southern Turkey are turning sandy beach resorts into a scene straight out of an apocalyptic movie.

One video shows residents evacuating a beach while a massive wall of fire shoots gargantuan clouds of dark smoke high into the sky.

Worldwide, wildfires have been devastating this year — and these videos could be a grim foreshadowing of what's in store for us, as climate change leads toward drier and hotter conditions, year after year.

https://twitter.com/blkahn/status/1420819304711348230

## World on Fire

Regions across the entire globe are currently on fire, from the [Bootleg Fire in Oregon](<https://www.npr.org/2021/08/04/1024646142/bootleg-fire-still-burning-alaska-puerto-rico>) to remote regions of Siberia that are spreading smoke [all the way to the North Pole](<https://gizmodo.com/smoke-from-siberian-wildfires-has-reached-the-north-pol-1847406521>).

Some of the fires are large enough to create their own weather patterns, triggering [freak lightning storms](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/forest-fire-huge-lightning-storms>) and allowing [fire clouds](<https://apnews.com/article/science-fires-environment-and-nature-oregon-wildfires-3255d07c698462a9221c090f212ac98e>) to form.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1422007657259487232

Turkish authorities are now trying to gain control over a series of forest fires along the country's Mediterranean coast and southern Aegean regions. Dozens of people were sent to hospitals, [according to the *Associated Press*](<https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-middle-east-europe-fires-turkey-221b65f565f878f8e547b980dc72759a>), and at least three people have been killed.

It's a scary new normal — and should come as a stern warning.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1422185414396370947

**More on wildfires:** *[A Forest Fire in Oregon Is So Huge That It's Generating Freak Lightning Storms](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/forest-fire-huge-lightning-storms>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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