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A major wildfire raged out of control in the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, triggering evacuations of several areas as swirling winds hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and ...
The 2024 Greek wildfires are a series of 30-kilometre-long lines of forest fires across the Attica region. This series of fires started on August 11 and lasted until August 14, 2024. Media outlets referred to this as: “Greece’s worst wildfire of the year 2024.” [1]
Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from other countries are set to arrive in Greece to help battle wildfires that have intensified as a heatwave baked much of southern Europe in temperatures ...
Fire Service spokesman Ioannis Artopios said 12 villages were ordered to be evacuated
On the afternoon of 11 August 2024, a wildfire fire hit the northeastern Attica region of Greece. The fire broke out in the area of Varnavas, northeast of Athens, at 3:02 PM, according to Fire Colonel Vassileios Vathrakogiannis, the Fire Service spokesman and quickly spread due to strong winds. The flames caused the evacuation of many ...
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the country faced a dangerous summer for wildfires on Monday, with a prolonged drought and unusually strong winds contributing to ...
The 2021 Greece wildfires were multiple wildfires in Greece in August 2021, which killed 3 people, [4] [5] injured at least 20 others and burned dozens of homes, after a historic heatwave for the country, with the highest temperatures reaching 47.1 °C (116.8 °F).