Nikos Hardalias: over 40,000 acres of land burned

Yesterday morning, the Sentinel-2 satellite recorded a fire zone raging in eastern Corinth since Wednesday evening. As of Thursday noon, at least 25,000 acres of the earth’s surface have been scorched, according to the European Emergency Service Copernicus-EMS.

However, these data were obtained before the period of increased wind and last night. Today they will be revised in accordance with new satellite measurements. Nikos Hardalias, Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management, said today that the fire in Geranea has turned 40,000 acres to ash.

Farms and holiday homes have been damaged, which are located at some distance from settlements. The picture of the fire is now a little better, the deputy minister noted, but all the forces of the fire brigade are still involved in extinguishing it. He stressed that for the first time in 21 years there was such a big fire in such weather conditions. The previous one was on Samos.

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