Lebanon turns to neighbours for help fighting forest fires

Lebanon has turned to its neighbours for help with battling forest fires that have ravaged homes and killed a volunteer firefighter in the Mediterranean country, the premier said on Tuesday. "We have contacted the Europeans who will send means of help," Prime Minister Saad Hariri said in comments carried by national news agency NNA. Dozens of fires have erupted around Lebanon in the past few days, the head of civil defence Raymond Khattar told NNA, amid unusually high temperatures and strong winds.