Limni, Greece: Wildfires lights up outside Athens and forced more evacuates around South Greece Thursday because the weather conditions deteriorated and firefighters in battle all the time stopped the fire outside the birthplace of ancient Olympiad.
Because additional support arrived from the Greek military and European Union countries, aircraft dropped water and helicopters swooped from the Blazes near the capital, on Evia Island and near ancient Olympia in the south.
“This country faces an unprecedented environmental crisis, with some major fires,” said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after visiting the site where the Olympics were detained every four years from 776 B.C.
for more than one millennium.
More than a dozen villages were evacuated in the area.
The heat waves of roasting Southeast Europe for the second week also triggered deadly fires in Turkey and Albania and flared in all regions.
The North Macedonian government on Thursday declared the state in a state of crisis for the next 30 days due to forest fires.
Commissioner of the EU for the environment, Virginijus Sincevicius, said the fire and extreme weather globally during the summer were clear signals for the need to overcome climate change.
“We fought with some of the worst forest fires we have ever seen in a few decades.
But this summer’s flood, heat waves and forest fires can be our new normality,” he wrote in a tweet.
“We have to ask yourself: Is this the world we want to live in? We need direct action for nature before it’s too late.” The European Union supports assistance to the countries hit by the fire, sending 40 firefighters and eight tons of materials to help Greece .
The Greek Civil Protection Agency said that the risk of fire in South Greece would increase on Friday further, even though there was a slight decrease in temperature which reached 45 C (113 F) earlier this week.
The heat wave was described as the worst person of Greece since 1987.
Defense Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos said the armed forces would expand their role in fire prevention, with land patrols, drones, and airplanes that were susceptible to forest fires.
Outside of Athens, the forest fire broke out on Tuesday and damaged or destroyed a number of houses turned on again, triggered fresh evacuation in the area and sent thick smoke above the capital.
The UE atmospheric monitoring service said the smoke prair of forest fires in the area was clearly visible in the satellite image, adding that the estimated intensity of forest fires in Turkey was at the highest level since the record began in 2003.
A big fire broke on Tuesday damaging the forest, leading to village evacuation.
More than 160 firefighters, three planes and three helicopters, and five land teams and 57 vehicles, were deployed.
Fire has not caused death or serious injury.
But Greek scientists said total destruction in three days this month in Greece exceeded 50% of the average area burned in the previous country.
The Athens Observatory report said that around 6,000 hectares (14,800 hectares) rose in smoking between Sunday and Wednesday, compared with 10,400 hectares last year.
The cause of Greek forest fires is not clear, but the authorities say human mistakes and carelessness are most often blamed.
Fire Rages New Close to Athens, Evacuation in South Greece
