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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 ...
The series of wildfires started with two large forest fires on August 11, 2024, at 03:00 P.M., 35 km north of Athens, near Varnavas. [2] Some of the fires in this series had flames were higher than 25 meters (80 feet). [3] The fires were ignited by hot and windy conditions in the area.
The fire has been raging since Tuesday and already burned 35 square kilometers (13 Fire crews lose control of blaze near Athens as southern Europe heat wave keeps communities on alert Skip to main ...
Fire department officials said 17 water-dropping planes and three helicopters were involved to try to contain the blaze that started about 70 kilometers (45 miles) west of Athens outside the ...
View of the Parnitha National Park fire from north Athens. The first major fire of the summer of 2007 was started on 28 June 2007. [1] It is perceived to have been started by either an exploding electrical pylon or by arsonists. [1] Significant parts of the Parnitha National Park were destroyed, [1] and in total, the fire burnt 15,723 acres (63 ...
The Hellenic Fire Service said the fire burning in Penteli, a village near Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, July 19, was “mostly under control” as of Wednesday, July 20.Three firefighters were ...
Attica (Greek: Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or Attikī́, Ancient Greek: [atːikɛ̌ː] or Modern:), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western civilization.