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Greek Forest Fire: New Blaze Breaking on Evia Island

Athens: A new fire broke out on Friday on Evia Greece Island but south of the area where the forest was destroyed, burned the house and was still burning 10 days after it began.
The Greek Fire Department said four aircraft dropped water and six helicopters were sent to control new fire at Central Evia, along with 23 firefighters and 10 vehicles.
A larger fire broke out on August 3 destroyed most of the northern island and was one of the worst forest fires in the country.
Although forest fires often occur in Greece during the hot and dry summer, hundreds of fire has broken throughout the country this year after a very long and intense heat wave.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsakakis on Thursday described the fire as Greece’s biggest ecological disaster had seen in decades.
Some Mediterranean countries suffered great heat and quickly spread forest fires in recent weeks, including Turkey, where at least eight people had died, and Italy.
In Algeria, forest fires in the Berber region of the mountains have killed at least 69 people.
Drought and heat that deteriorated – both associated with climate change – has also triggered forest fires this summer in the western United States and in the North Siberian region of Russia.
Scientists say there is little doubt that climate change from coal combustion, oil and natural gas encourage more extreme events.
Fire in Greece stretched the ability of the country’s firefight with limits, and the government asked for assistance from abroad.
About 24 European and Middle East countries sent assistance, including firefighters, airplanes and vehicles.
On Friday, firefighters from Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, Slovakia, Poland and Moldova tended with the remnants of Evia’s main blaze, which had scorched 50,900 hectares (125,777 hectares) from Greece’s second largest island.
Two main fires are still burning in the South Greece in Peloponnese, where hundreds of French, German, Austria and Czech firers help their Greek colleagues.

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