Western Romania: Thick smoke covers city of Timişoara for second day as wildfires rage in Serbia

A thick layer of smoke covered Timişoara on Friday, August 21, for the second consecutive day, following recent out-of-control wildfires in Serbia. In response, authorities recommended that residents stay indoors. Thousands of hectares of forests and grassland have burned in the neighboring country in recent days, and smoke easily crossed into Romania. A day earlier, on Thursday, August 20, dozens…