Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Athens as residents told to evacuate | Greece
According to the country’s fire brigade service, a forest fire was burned from the northern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Saturday and ordered to be released to some inhabitants.
Firefighter Vassilis Vassilis Vathrakoyannis told reporters to release three SMS to evacuate to safe areas, 20 km north (20km), 20 km north of Athens, which is 12.5 miles (20km) of Athens.
The Greek media set the houses on fire. Vathrakoyannis said: “There are damage reports. We will buy stock when fires are removed.”
“Real challenges are in front of us,” he added that Greece wanted six firefighters from the European Union’s civil protection mechanism.
145 firefighters and 44 firefighters, 10 firefighters and seven helicopters on the site were trying to extinguish the fire whose origin is unknown. The four ambulances treated at least five residents with most respiratory problems.
38C, temperatures that reach or exceed dry conditions and high winds are mortal.
Vathrakoyannis, under these circumstances, forest fires said, “It is expected that these conditions will be valid in the coming days.”
The fire department is dealing with three other three major fires on the two largest islands of Greece, on the two largest islands of Crete and Evia in the north of Atina, as well as on the island of Kythera in the north-west of Crete. At least 335 firefighters are included in 19 aircraft and 13 helicopters, but can only work in daylight. Vathrakoyannis said that a total of 52 forest fires erupted nationwide.
Fires, many of which have been destructive, have become a widespread event in Greece in recent years. A few exploded last month.
