For more than a month, Greece continues to fight with fire. Dozens of small ones and several large ones, where the fire covers hundreds and thousands of hectares, hundreds of people are involved in extinguishing them. What is the reason, is it just the heat? A nightmarish fire has been destroying the Dadia National Park […]
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Civil protection: “Very high risk of fires” in several regions of Greece (MAP)
The Greek Civil Protection warned of a “very high fire risk” on Friday, July 15, 2022. Regions at very high risk are mainly in Central and Southern Greece, while others are at “high risk”. The north wind, reaching 8 points on the Beaufort scale in places, has sharply increased the level of fire danger. According […]
Fire destroyed 25 hectares of forest land in Kefalonia
According to initial estimates based on images from the European environmental satellite Sentinel-2, the devastating fires on July 2, 3 and 4 in the southeast of Kefalonia have burned about 25 hectares of forest land. The burn-up area was calculated by the services of the National Observatory of Athens / meteo.gr. The European Forest Fire […]