Sky News reports:
Fire clouds are coming to Europe for the first time
Really?
What about the firestorms in German cities in WW2 when the Allies killed tens of thousands of civilians in the horrific firestorms resulting from round-the-clock 'precision' bombing?
In Hamburg:
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-gomorrah-first-firestorms
The fire seemed to become a living entity, changing course at will, consuming everything in its path, and generating a heat that melted glass and cutlery and turned bricks to ash. For over four hours, the city burned. Charred bodies littered the landscape as only the facades of buildings remaining. While no definitive casualty number was recorded, some estimates place it near 40,000. Many of the deaths were not caused by fire, but from smoke inhalation or carbon monoxide poisoning as the flames consumed all the available oxygen.
The main difference is that those firestorms were deliberate and not the result of wildfires.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43546839
Kate Hoffmeister, 19, was trying to escape the furnace her Hamburg neighbourhood had become.
"I struggled to run against the wind in the middle of the street... we couldn't go on across [the road] because the asphalt had melted.
"There were people on the roadway, some already dead, some still lying alive but stuck in the asphalt. They must have rushed on to the roadway without thinking.
"Their feet have got stuck and they had put out their hands to try and get out again. They were on their hands and knees screaming."
This BBC article goes on to say:
In 1941 it was calculated it took five tonnes of bombs to kill one German. The numbers of enemy dead were almost the same as Allied aircrews lost.
This prompted a change in tactics. Specific industrial targets were mostly abandoned.
Mr Lowe said: "Hamburg was the result of a deliberate policy. In a way it would be understandable - if you can't hit, say, an aircraft factory alone, you can try and hit anything around it.
"But this went further - it stopped trying to hit the aircraft factory, it specifically targeted the workers and their families."
We are heading this way in both Iran and Russia/Ukraine just as if WW2 never happened.