Athens: Forest fires lit outside Athens and impose more evacuations around South Greece Thursday because of the weather conditions deteriorate and firefighters in battle all the time stopped the flame outside the old-fashioned place of 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.
“The country faces an unprecedented environmental crisis, with many major fires, ” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said after visiting the Olympic site site detained every four years from 776 BC for more than one millennium.
More than a dozen villages were evacuated in the area .
broiling heat wave southeastern Europe for the second week also sparked deadly fire in Turkey and Albania and lit throughout the region.
The Government of Macedonia North on Thursday that the country within the next 30 days to wildfires.
Commissioner of the EU for the environment, Virginijus Sinkevicius, said the fire And the extreme weather globally during the summer is a clear signal for the need to overcome climate change.
“We fought with some of the worst forest fires we have ever seen in decades.
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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 immediate action for nature before it’s too late.
” The European Union supports assistance to the countries hit by fire, sending 40 firefighters and eight tons of materials to help Greece.
The Greek Civil Protection Agency said the risk of fire in South Greece would increase on Friday further, with windy weather forecast for parts of the country, even though there was a slight decrease at temperatures that reached 45 C (113 F) earlier this week.
Wave heat It was described as the worst 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 over areas that were vulnerable to forest fires, broken forest fire.
North Fringes from the capital of Tuesday and destroyed or destroyed a number of houses on, triggering Eva Fresh quasi, threatening the house and sending thick smoke above the capital.
EU ATPOS here monitoring services say smoke feathers from forest fires in the area are clearly visible in the satellite image, adding that the estimated intensity of forest fires in Turkey is at the highest level since the record began in 2003.
On Evia Island, a great fire broke Tuesday Destroying the forest, which leads to village evacuation and camping location, send people to escape into the car and the sea.
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.
However, Arson was suspected of fire near Olympia ancient, with officials noting that seven fires broke out with rapid succession in the region on Wednesday.
The local city mayor of Pyrgos, Panagiotis Antonakopoulos, told the open TV that one person had been seen moving in a suspicious forest closest to a motorcycle, stopped so often and fire out shortly after stopping.
That person, he said, had not been arrested.
Fire Rages New Close to Athens, Evacuation in South Greece
