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Watch live as wildfires continue to rage on Rhodes on Tuesday 25 July. More British holidaymakers are due to return to the UK from the fire-ravaged Greek island, as repatriation flights continue.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 ...
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).