Turkey has sent two fire-fighting airplanes to Israel after a fire erupted in Haifa city upon Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's order, CNN Turk reported.
According to the report, Turkey is ready to send additional help to Israel if necessary.
A huge forest fire killed many people in Israel yesterday, including young prison guard cadets trapped in a bus while heading to help inmates flee the flames, officials said.
More than 12,000 people were evacuated from towns and villages as the fires, said to be the worst in the country's history, blazed out of control.
Tirat Carmel, a town near Haifa, was the latest of more than a dozen towns and cities evacuated. Police officers blared orders through megaphones for residents to leave as smoke engulfed the town and spread across the hillsides.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on a visit to the scene by helicopter that Israel had suffered a "disaster on a scale we have never seen before."
"We are harnessing all of the forces of the state to deal with this disaster and rescue those who are injured and to stop the fire," he added.
Netanyahu called an extraordinary session of his security cabinet before the weekend to decide on further steps.
Netanyahu appealed with the request for emergency assistance to the states with aviation fire. As reported by local television, more than a dozen fire planes and helicopters from various European countries are expected to arrive today.
Paramedics said they had found 36 bodies. The prison guards who were killed were cadets who had been on the way to help evacuate the prison. The fire started around midday, possibly in an illegal dumping ground in the Carmel Hills south of Haifa, Israeli media said.
Israeli firefighters said it is the biggest forest fire in the country's history, with some 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) of land so far destroyed.