Athens, Greece: The Greek Fire Department sent a helicopter and firefighters to the second largest Evia Island in the country on Monday, while the Coast Guard prepared a boat if the sea evacuation became needed because other forest fires broke up with strong winds.
This month, which began with the most severe Greek heat waves in about three decades, quickly turned into one of the country’s most destructive fire extinguisher seasons, with dozens of forest fires broke every day throughout the country.
Thousands of people have been forced to escape from fire, who have devoured the forest, farmland, home and business.
Evia has been very devastated, with a large fire burning for more than 10 days north of the island, destroying tens of thousands of hectares of beach to the beach.
A voluntary firefight has died, and at least four more hospitalized with burns.
The ability of the state fire extinguisher has been stretched to the limit, leading the government to request international aid earlier this month because four main fires are on fire in other parts of the country.
Fire Monday broke out in the southern Evia, near the west coast of the island.
The fire department ruffled 64 firefighters with 26 vehicles, one land team, nine helicopters and one plane fell to fight with fire.
It said that the fire was contained after a few hours.
Coast Guard said it had one lifeboat, one private ship and two ferries on standby if the sea evacuation was needed.
In the previous fire in northern Evia, hundreds of people were evacuated by sea from the coast and coastal villages when the fire ran down the hill towards them.
Nearly 300 firefighters, including reinforcements sent from Romania, are also still at the location of a large flames broken last Monday near the village of Vilia northwest of Athens and controlled on Friday.
Worried of strong winds during the weekend could revive the flame, hundreds of firefighters and volunteers supported by helicopters and aircraft dropping water on the outskirts of the area burned on Saturday and Sunday, put out small flares.
The cause of Greek forest fires has not been officially established, but more than a dozen people have been arrested for suspicion of combustion, including a 14-year-old boy.
On Friday, the minister of residents of Michalis Chrisochoidis said the prosecutor’s special prosecutor for organized crime cases was involved in the investigation into the causes of the Blazes.
Heat and intense forest fires have also reduced other Mediterranean countries.
The recent forest fires have killed at least 75 people in Algeria and 16 in Turkey, while in South France 1,200 firefighters have struggled to contain large flames that have forced thousands to escape, killing two people and injured 26.
Drought Heavy heat also triggered.
Wildfires 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.
Greek Wildfires: Other Blaze Breaks on Evia Island
