Athens: Firefighters and residents demanded large forest fires on the second largest island in Greece Monday, struggling to save what they could from fire that had destroyed pure vast channels, destroying homes and businesses and sending thousands.
Smoke and ashes from fire at Evia, rough and naked forest islands almost touched the Greek mainland, blocking the sun, turning the orange sky when the fire went berserk in the northern part of the island.
The Evia API was the most severe dozens who had broken throughout Greece in the past week, after the country was baked by her worst heat waves in three decades that sent temperatures to surge up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) for days.
The heat, come in the midst of what has become a very hot summer, has changed the Greek forest, including a large area of ​​flammable pine trees, into dry dry boxes.
Other large fires have burned forests and agricultural land in the South Greece in Peloponnese, while large flames burned through homes, businesses and forests in the northern suburbs of Athena were in Wane.
Wildfires has stretched the ability of Greek firefighters to limits, and the government has appealed for assistance from abroad.
More than 20 countries in Europe and the Middle East have responded, sending aircraft, helicopters, vehicles and labor.
But many local residents and officials complained of a lack of firefighters, and some had taken to call on the Greek television network to beg for help, especially from aircraft dropping water and helicopters.
“We were truly abandoned.
There is no fire brigade, no vehicle, no!” David Angelou said, who was at Evia in Pefki Beach Village and left the island with the ferry to the land of Harbor Arkitsa Sunday night.
“You can feel extraordinary heat, there is also a lot of smoke.
You can see the sun, red balls, and then, nothing else around,” he said.
The head of Greek civil protection, Nikos Hardialias, has emphasized that firefighters have done everything they can.
On Sunday, a small fire aircraft crashed into Western Greece Island Zakinthos while fighting a smaller fire there a massive fire also raged more than 10 days in Turkish neighbors, where firefighters were still trying to extinguish the fire in coastal provinces in the province Beach.
from Mugla, in the southwest of the country.
“The situation is increasing,” said Minister of Agriculture and the forestry of Bekir Pakdemirli told Sunday.
“It’s too early to say the fire is controlled, but we reach that point.” At Evia overnight, the population and firefighters managed to save most of the village of Pefki, at the north end of the island, where the fire moved quickly entered the edge of Saturday night and destroyed at least one house.
A ferry that has been sent to PEFKI to potentially evacuate people by sea turn into temporary shelters for the population and other nearby villages that do not have the means to escape towards the main port of Aidipsos Evia North, or who wants to stay nearby Their house so they can go back and check it down every time it’s safe to do.
Monday morning found dozens of locals, many with their pets, sleeping in a chair above the ferry, or in a casual chair Pebble Pecha Pefki.
Most villages around it are left without strength and running water from fire.