Greece enlists help from European allies to tackle raging wildfires | Greece

With the help of Czech firefighters and Italian planes, Greece is fighting forest fires that destroy and evacuate the houses that are expected to come later on Sunday.

Forest fires continued on Sunday morning in the Peloponnese region to the west of the capital and on Evia and Kythera Islands, aircraft and helicopters continued their work in various parts of the country at dawn.

Estimators estimated that strong winds to die in most areas would die, but warned Kythera that it continues to face windy conditions.

Evacuation messages were sent to the people on the island extending from the southeast end of Pelopnesese as the fires continued without slowing down on Sunday.

Gior Giorgos Komninos, Deputy Mayor of Kythera, told local Outlet Ert News, “Houses, beehives, olive trees were burned,” he said. “Currently, a monastery is directly in danger,” he said, adding that half of the island was burned.

Supported by three helicopters and two aircraft, dozens of firefighters were fighting with Kythera Blaze, which exploded on Saturday morning and forced the evacuation of a popular tourist beach.

Greece, along with the units that were already at work, had requested help from the EU allies of Greece, and two Italian planes were expected on Sunday.

According to the authorities, eleven regions of Greece are still at risk of a very high risk of fire.

Firefighters work in various parts of Peloponnese and overnight on the island of Evia near Athens, flames threw waste into the forest areas and killed thousands of farm animals.

Further south, in Crete, Saturday afternoon exploding and destroying four houses and a church, he said.

Greece is expected to die in many areas of temperature in many areas, but the temperature is expected to die on Monday.