Greece battles wildfires near Athens
Greece battled wildfires on Friday on multiple fronts, from the outskirts of Athens to the central part of the country and on the island of Crete, while France and Spain ...
Greece battles wildfire on Crete for a third day, thousands of tourists left the area
Firefighters battled for a third day on Friday to put out a wildfire on the Greek island of Crete that has razed forests and olive groves and forced thousands of ...
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Wildfire on Greek island of Crete scorches forest, forces evacuation of over 1,000
Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze Thursday on Crete island, which burnt swathes of forest and olive groves and forced the evacuation of over 1,000 people, officials said, underscoring the region’...
Greece: Wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters battle wildfires on Greece’s Chios island for third day
Hundreds of firefighters battled for a third day to contain wildfires on the Greek island of Chios on Tuesday that have torn through swathes of forest and farmland and forced ...
Firefighters battle wildfires on Greece’s Chios island for second day
Dozens of firefighters battled to tame wildfires fanned by strong winds on the Greek island of Chios in the northeastern Aegean Sea for a second day on Monday as authorities ...
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As wildfires wipe out forests, Greeks debate: to replant, or not?
When a wildfire tore down a hillside towards Athens last month, its southernmost flank halted in a treeless area burned by fire two years before. A few miles west, however, ...
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Wildfire rages on Greek island of Evia for second day
More than 200 firefighters backed up by helicopters and water-carrying planes battled a wildfire on Greece’s second-biggest island of Evia for a second day on Tuesday as authorities ordered the ...
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Heavy lightning triggers wildfires on Greek island of Thassos
Heavy lightning triggered two fires on the Greek island of Thassos on Wednesday, the fire brigade said, a day after firefighting forces tamed wildfires fanned by unusually strong winds on ...
One dead in Greek wildfires fanned by gale-force winds
A man died on Friday as several forest fires fanned by gale-force winds battered Greece’s southern tip and forced evacuations, the fire brigade said.
The 55-year-old man was injured ...
Mourning for Greek pilots who died fighting fires
Flags will fly at half-mast at parliament in Nicosia during the three-day mourning period declared for the two Greek pilots who died fighting wildfires in Greece.
Parliament said on Wednesday ...
Europe battles heatwave and fires, record temperatures scorch China
Italy put 23 cities on red alert with temperatures set to reach up to 46 Celsius (114 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, one of the global hotspots as a wave of extreme heat, wildfires and ...
Wildfires rage near Athens, houses damaged (Update)
Two wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged uncontrolled through coastal towns near Athens on Monday forcing residents to flee their homes and prompting the evacuation of hundreds of children from ...
Greece battles wildfires for third day, site of ancient Olympics saved
Greek authorities ordered more evacuations on an island near Athens on Thursday and battled a blaze near the site of the ancient Olympic Games in the western Peloponnese as wildfires ...