As crews prepared to leave the scene, individuals began throwing projectiles, including bottles, at both personnel and apparatus. One firefighter sustained minor injuries to the leg but was able to remain on duty.

Authorities said 26 to 30 passengers, most of them Polish nationals, managed to escape before the fire spread.

A rescue operation turned tragic off the coast of Lofoten, Norway, when a Norwegian rescue worker died while searching for a missing 12-year-old Swedish girl after a boat carrying seven people capsized in Nappstraumen.

The fires, which scorched large swaths of forest and threatened several communities, had already strained emergency services during one of the hottest summers on record.