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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 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,
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 [The ... They] fought the fire in north-eastern Attica with superhuman effort,
Enough is enough, ... Evacuate Maximou.”
said the front page of the newspaper Ta Nea, while the left-wing Efsyn daily, referring to the building that houses the prime minister’s office, declared So the crisis is still far from over, although we’re not seeing the big blazes in this area, as we’ve seen in the last 24 hours. But the emergency services are very much on high alert and expecting pockets of fire to start in this area at any time,
All of us need to get more engaged with our forests,
It jumped over to mine and burned it down. From here, it went next door and then to the house next to it,
he said, suspecting someone was to blame The fire traveled 50 kilometers and changed direction 10 times,
It hurts. We have grown up in the forest. We feel great sadness and anger,
24-year-old resident Marina Kalogerakou told Reuters news agency as she poured water from a bucket onto a burning tree stump