Wild fires in Greece: A middle-aged man lost his life while he was volunteering in extinguish a wild fire in West Peloponnese on Friday. In Attica, the mayor of Saronikos called on residents to leave their homes due to a blaze in the south-east of the region. More than 40 …

Three wildfires broke out in Attica on Friday afternoon, with firefighters to have to work against the flames and the strong winds. The wildfires broke out on Penteli Mountain near residence areas, in Artemida in North-East Attica and Tanagra in North-West of Athens. In Penteli, the fire broke out in …

Forest and wild fires continue in Greece nevertheless the prolonged dryness, high temperatures and strong summer winds. In the last 24 hours, the Fire Service had to intervene into 59 forest fires across the country. Thursday is another day of “very high risk” of forest and wild fires, with the …

Greece’s Civil Protections has issued a warning over a “very high risk” of forest fires and wildfires for Friday, August 23rd 2019. According to the warning the following areas are affected: Attica and Viotia, the islands of Evia, Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Ikaria, Kythera as well as Lakonia, Arkadia, Argolida, Corinth, …

Hardcore Metropolitan Bishop of Kalavryta and Aigialia, Amvrosios announced his resignation during the morning mess on Sunday. The resignation of the 81-year-old Amvrosios was planted for quite some time after he was sentenced for hate speech. In his speech to the parish on Sunday, he explained the reasons for his …

Greece’s Civil Protection has issued a “very high risk” warning of forest and wildfires. The warning is for August 15, 2019, and concerns especially the islands in the Ionian Sea. Yellow = High Risk Orange = Very High Risk A warning has been issued also for Friday, August 16, 2019. …

Spain and Italy sent fire fighting aircraft to the forest fire on Evia after Greece submitted a request at the European Civil Protection on Tuesday European Commissioner Christos Stylianides who is visitng Athens on Wednesday estimated that according to his experience as Commissioner and the wildfires he saw in many …

The forest fire in central Evia seems to be out of control due to powerful winds blowing in the area. The thick smoke of burning pine trees have reached Attica and capital Athens. On fire is the narrow forest Dirfys protected by NATURA 2000. The fire is near three village …

Two houses have been burned down and two others were partly damaged due to the wildfire that broke in the east slopes of Hymettus Mountain in East Athens in the early morning hours of Monday. Residents in the area woke up hearing police urging them with megaphones to evacuate their …

The Greek Fire Service and the Civil Protection warn of “high” risk of forest fires on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. The warning comes amid a heat wave that strikes Greece with temperatures up to 41° – 42° Celsius from 8th to 10th July 2019. Regions at risk of wildfires due …

The Greece Fire Service and the Civil Protection warn of “high” risk of wildfires on Monday, July 8, 2019. Regions at risk of wildfires due to high temperatures are: Attica, East Sterea, Thessaly, the island of Samos, the island group of Dodecanese, Chania Prefecture on Crete, South Peloponnese and the …

Weather will remain unstable over the weekend, with clouds, rain showers and local thunderstorms in several regions of Greece. At the same time, temperatures will remain high and strong North winds (meltemia) will blow in the Aegean Sea. Rain and thunderstorms are forecast in Thessaly, the Sporades islands, North Evia …

It needed the tears of a 12-year-old school boy to draw attention to a problem that again sheds bad light to Greece: The platform lift for the transfer of wheelchairs up to the Acropolis has been out of order for several months. The wheel-chair-bound school boy was shocked to realize …

US meteorologists forecast a hell of a summer 2019 in Greece and the whole Europe. Heat waves, drought, floods, severe storms, tornadoes and wildfires…. this is the nightmare forecast by the experts team of Accuweather. The summer in Europe will be warmer and drier than the summer 2018. In particular, …

Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy has been playing dirty ahead of European and local elections and on the occasion of the confidence vote in the Parliament. On Wednesday during the debate in Parliament, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed that the deceased father of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and a …

Political turmoil has broken out in Greece after media affiliated with main opposition party revealed that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spent last summer vacations on a luxury yacht of a Greek shipowner. Tsipras’ vacation in August 2018 took place just weeks after the horrendous wildfire in Mati that took the …

The Greek Fire Service has announced the opening of the firefighting season 2019. The firefighting season that in fact forbids the setting of fires outdoors runs from May 1 until October 31. Calling on citizens to avoid anything that would start a fire, the Fire Service published a list of …

Pita bread, pork chunks, tomato, onions, parsley, french fries and sauce. This is the traditional souvlaki, Greeks’ top junk food. Now Greek are shocked to hear the price for favorite quick and cheap meal is going to climb to 3 euros from 2.20 currently as of May 1, 2019. The …

The Athens Prosecutor’s Office filed four charges of misdemeanor against nine individuals – including Attica Governor Rena Dourou and mayors of regional towns – for the deadly flash flood in Mandra, western Attica, sixteen months ago in November 2017, which claimed the lives of 25 people. According to the prosecutor’s …

Government plans to change the Penal Code have triggered an outrage for a series of proposed penalties set to be lowered.penalties proposed. The storm of protests came not only from conservative New Democracy and communist party KKE but but also from the youth branch of ruling party SYRIZA as well …