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The fire is not as intense as it was in the last few days,
a fire service spokesman told AFP Under-staffed, under-equipped and totally uncoordinated,
said Stefanos Kasselakis, leader of the leftwing Syriza opposition party of the civil protection service, blaming Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis The solution won't just come from the air,
Every year we are doing our best to improve, but unfortunately conditions are becoming more difficult,
Mitsotakis said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday We saw huge flames, and at the same time (explosions) began. We thought we were at war,
Nikos Karoulias, a 71-year-old former defender for Greece's national football team, told AFP in Penteli They burned us! Government, ministers, you are responsible for this crime."
On Tuesday evening, around 200 people demonstrated outside parliament, with one sign reading The overall context hasn't changed. Our climate continues to warm,
said Copernicus Deputy Director Samantha Burgess Human-induced climate change is the most important one and spans across all these scales,
Heat illness and deaths are preventable, and many impacts can be minimized with targeted economic and social policies and concrete actions,
the UN's climate and weather agency said It is a scary experience, of course, and it is traumatic to see what is happening to your neighbours, their property, and the beautiful mountain we live in. It is very sad,
said a local woman who had to evacuate I saved what I could from the house. They told us that the electricity will come back in about a month and we don’t know anything about the water,
We are facing a new normal, consisting of extreme natural phenomena and alternating periods of rain and drought that we must overcome,
said Efthymios Lekkas, an expert in natural disasters at the Kapodistrian University of Athens We feel forgotten, helpless,
Calling on the government to send a water-bomber plane for aerial firefighting support, he said ... and added Right now, it's difficult to estimate the expanse of the area affected,
The fire was focused on Anapafseos [St]– it’s a long road that doesn’t even have one fire hydrant. It’s ridiculous. Firefighters were having to drive 10 minutes back and forth to get water.”
The General Secretariat for Civil Protection has announced Very High Fire Risk (Risk Category 4) and Extreme Fire Risk (Risk Category 5) for many areas in Greece, including areas close to Athens.”
The US embassy in Athens has put out a warning urging travellers to “exercise extreme caution in affected areas”, saying The situation has improved, but there are random blazes. At the time being we don’t have any new fronts, only some rekindlings, but we remain on high alert,
a fire brigade official said on Tuesday The government is attempting damage control after the huge and catastrophic fire that raged for 40 hours in Attica, even entering the urban fabric [of Athens] and leaving behind a dead woman,
[The ... They] fought the fire in north-eastern Attica with superhuman effort,
Forty hours after this extremely dangerous wildfire broke out we can now say that there is no active front, only scattered hotspots,
Greece’s climate crisis and civil protection minister, Vassilis Kikilias, said