Firefighters are struggling against hot, dry conditions to tame multiple wildfires ravaging Greece, including the largest ever recorded in the EU.
Firefighters struggled Thursday against strong winds and hot, dry conditions to tame multiple wildfires ravaging Greece, including one in the country’s northeast that officials say is the largest ever recorded in the European Union.
The fires have left 20 people dead over the last week. Eighteen of those, including two boys between 10 and 15 years old, are believed to be migrants who . Their bodies were found by firefighters near a shack in a burned forest area near Alexandroupolis in northeastern Greece. Sixty firefighters have been injured, fire department spokesman Ioannis Artopios said., combined with smaller blazes to create a massive inferno that has consumed homes and vast tracts of forest and triggered multiple evacuations of villages and of the city’s hospital.
Elsewhere in Europe, fires on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, in northwestern Turkey near the border with Greece, in Portugal and in Italy were being brought under control, officials said.They thought the grass fire was contained, but wind conditions were still extreme. Now the decision to pull firefighters away shortly before the Maui fire reignited has become a flashpoint, as questions mount over whether more could have been done to stave off the destruction.
The minister said nine fires had been set in the space of four hours Thursday morning in the area of Avlona, in the northern foothills of Mt. Parnitha.
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European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in GreeceWater-dropping planes from several European countries have joined hundreds of firefighters battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left 20 people dead, while major blazes are also burning in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border.
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European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in GreeceWater-dropping planes from several European countries have joined hundreds of firefighters battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left 20 people dead, while major blazes are also burning in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border.
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European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in GreeceWater-dropping planes from several European countries have joined hundreds of firefighters battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left 20 people dead, while major blazes are also burning in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border.
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European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in GreeceWater-dropping planes from several European countries joined hundreds of firefighters Wednesday battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that left 20 people dead, while major blazes also burned in Spain’s Tenerife in the Canary Islands and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border.
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European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in GreeceWater-dropping planes from several European countries have joined hundreds of firefighters battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left 20 people dead, while major blazes are also burning in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border
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European firefighters and planes join battle against wildfires that have left 20 dead in GreeceWater-dropping planes from several European countries have joined hundreds of firefighters battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that have left 20 people dead, while major blazes are also burning in Spain’s Tenerife and in northwestern Turke...
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