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Croatia is battling wildfires as thousands of tourists have fled Rhodes and Corfu amid blazes ravaging Greece.. A firefighting plane is dropping water on a mountainside in Župa DubrovaÄ ka in ...
Tuesday expected to bring more wildfires as ‘extreme fire risk’ issued for Crete and Rhodes Greece fires – live: Red alert for Crete as British tourists in ‘living nightmare’ on Rhodes ...
Temperatures to remain high in Italy, Greece and across the Balkans even as heatwave eases in France and Spain
The fire broke out in the parking deck, probably in a truck. Euroferry Olympia was brought closer to the north Corfu coast to offer better protection from the wind. [4] The ship was later towed to Astakos to complete the fire-fighting and by 23 March the bodies of the eleven missing passengers had been recovered. [6] [7]
The 2007 Greek forest fires were a series of massive forest fires that broke out in several areas across Greece throughout the summer of 2007. The most destructive and lethal infernos broke out on 23 August, expanded rapidly and raged out of control until 27 August, until they were finally put out in early September.
According to a senior climate crisis official, 667 fires were caused by a "human hand", blaming either negligence or arson. [7] 79 arrests were made as of late August.[2]By 25 August, officials had arrested 163 people on fire-related charges since the start of the fire prevention season, including 118 for negligence and 24 for deliberate arson, and the police had made a further 18 arrests ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Scores of passengers and crew have been rescued from a fire that engulfed an Italy-bound ferry with 290 people on board near the Greek island of Corfu, authorities said Friday.
The Hansa-class ferry caught fire off Corfu and was abandoned. About 292 people were on board (239 registered passengers, two stowaways, and 51 crew), of which 281 were rescued and 11 remained unaccounted for as of 20 February.