The National Observatory of Athens released photographs taken by the Sentinel-2 satellite, which flew over Western Attica and Eastern Corinthia on Thursday. On Thursday morning, May 20, the Sentinel-2 satellite flew over West Attica and East Corinth, taking a picture of the fire from above. The photo shows the burned-out areas (they are brown in color), through which the fire passed, as well as places where there is an active fire front and a cloud of smoke. According to the European Emergency Management Agency Copernicus – EMS, the fire broke out on Wednesday evening, while burning branches in an olive groveand by noon the next day about 25,000 acres (10,112 hectares) of land had been reduced to ash. In total, at the time of publication, according to an emergency briefing by the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Anti-Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias, about 40 thousand acres (16,187 hectares) of forest and agricultural land had already been burned out. Dozens of residential homes and other properties were also affected. The resurgence of a front of fire near Megara led to the evacuation of the Papagianneika settlement. The battle with the fires in the Geranean Mountains is titanic as firefighters are confronted with wildfires that burn in scattered and inaccessible places. According to the relevant order of the authorities, the village of Papagianneika in Megara was evacuated, as a fire resumed near it.
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According to the latest information from the fire department, residents have already left their homes. According to SKAI, houses in Papagiannake burned down, but there is no official such image. …
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