The distance smoke from the Attica forest fires has traveled southwest is estimated at more than 300 km. Doctors are urging people with respiratory diseases to be especially careful.
The fire is blazing out of control different directions in AtticaSmoke from a forest fire that broke out in Barnabas at midday Sunday has spread more than 300 km, according to the weather service, which published a map.
The large dispersion of smoke from a forest fire that has been burning since yesterday afternoon in north-eastern Attica is shown in the following satellite image, acquired and processed by the European meteorological satellite METEOSAT-11.
The satellite image also shows the dispersal of smoke from a forest fire in Menoikio Oros in Serres prefecture.
Poor air quality makes it dangerous for people's health due to thick smoke that has covered Attica due to an uncontrolled firestorm that has been raging for the second day. According to the IQAIR station, the areas of Vrilisia, Cholargos, Glyfada and Marathon are particularly polluted. Scientists are calling on citizens suffering from respiratory diseases to be especially careful and to avoid activities in open spaces.
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Oh απνών της πυρκαγιάς που ξεκίνησε στου Βαρνάβα. Οι ενδείξεις προέρχονται από τους σταθμούς μέτρησης ρύπανσης στη ν Αγία Παρασκευή, τη Γλυφάδα και τη Βουλιαγμένη. pic.twitter.com/DikTjIgK4q— PROMETHEUS Team – Disaster Intelligence (@PROMETHEUSTeam1) August 11, 2024
Recording of very poor air quality due to smoke from the fire that started in Varnava. Readings were obtained from pollution measuring stations in Agia Paraskevi, Glyfada and Vouliagmeni.
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