Death by electric heater: In the early Sunday morning, thick black smoke emanates from the windows of an old two-story house in the Metaxourgio district of central Athens. Parents and children run in panic, fleeing the fire, neighbors and passers-by rush to help until firefighters arrive. The man climbed onto the grate and helped the […]
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1/3 of the forests destroyed on Evia
According to the National Observatory of Athens / meteo.gr, a third of Evia’s forests have been destroyed by catastrophic fires. Using the CORINE database of the European Union, it has been calculated that 23% of the total area of Evia is covered with forests of various species. According to recent detailed satellite records, the fire […]
How many houses burned down in fires
In Attica, Peloponnese, Evia and Phthiotida, engineers from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport are conducting inspections in areas affected by fire. Until yesterday, 940 surveys of the affected properties were carried out. Most of them are in Attica – 539. There were also inspected 257 buildings in Evia, 67 in Ilia, 20 in Messinia, […]
Fire in Evia: more than 300 families were left homeless
Central Greece Governor Fanis Spanos noted that the front of the fire in Northern Evia is more than 30 kilometers, and residents of a dozen villages have been evacuated. The disaster that took place in the north of Evia is characterized as “incredible” according to the first reports submitted by the municipalities and the region. […]