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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,
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 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,
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 I couldn't see. I hit a pine tree and this is what happened,
he said, gesturing towards the car Thirty years I was building all this. Thirty years and bam,
We stand with Greece as it battles devastating fires,
said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a statement on X on Monday I’ve never seen anything like it,
Susan Nesmith, who just days ago traveled to Greece from Alabama for a wedding, told NBC News Every year we know there is risk,
30-year-old Natasa, who declined to provide her last name, told NBC News Flying into the airport, we couldn’t believe all the smoke,
There is no active front, but scattered outbreaks,
Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said in a televised statement My house was utterly destroyed, even the walls fell down. There's nothing left,
said Sakis Morfis, 70, a Vrilissia resident Thirty-five years living here, a fire had never reached this area,
said Meletis Makris, a 65-year-old pensioner in Vrilissia The overall picture looks improved but there are still many fronts in various areas,
said a fire brigade official The wildfire had all the characteristics that we, as firefighters, don't want a forest fire to have. A combination of hot, dry and windy (conditions),
Nikos Lavranos, head of the Greek federation of fire service employees, told Greek TV