Tag Archives: fire

Dozens of passengers of Athens urban train ISAP panicked on Wednesday afternoon when the wagons were filled with smoke. The train stopped, passengers opened the doors with their own hands,got off jumping out of the wagons and started walking on the tracks and next to them to the nearest station. …

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A fire at the Motor Oil facilities in Agioi Theodoroi, western Attica, on Tuesday afternoon had filled the area with black smoke and forced the evacuation of residents in the area. Vehicles and train traffic in the area has been suspended. Πυρκαγιά στη Motor Oil στους Αγίους Θεοδώρους – Μήνυμα …

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A big wildfire has been raging in Platanias by Chania on the island of Crete on Wednesday. The fire broke out around 4 o’ clock in the afternoon in grassland and in an area with reeds near hotels and very close to the houses of the village. At 6 o’ …

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A radical Vegan organization claimed responsibility for the fire in an egg production facility in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. “If you rebuild it, we will burn it down again,” the radical vegans posted on a website of the anti-authoritarian scene. A fire in the eggs factory of the “Tsakiris Family” in …

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High temperatures and high-velocity summer winds (meltemia) forecast for the next three days raise the threat for fires in four main areas of Greece, Climate Crisis & Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Thursday. The Minister called on citizens to be cautious and refrain from outdoor actions what could …

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Greece’s Fire Service arrested two Italian tourists who started a fire at a beach of Antipaxos island in the Ionian Sea. The two tourists are boat captains who were about to start a beach party. According to local media, the two lit the fire on Wednesday afternoon on the beach …

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The platform for the first financial support to those affected by the wildfire in north-eastern Attica and Athens was opened today, Tuesday, August 20,2014. In platform arogi.gov.gr citizens, farmers and business people can submit their applications to receive the financial aid. All those seeking the financial support need to submit …

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Greek police has proceeded to one arrest and 17 detentions of people looting and suspected for looting homes in the fire-affected areas of north-eastern Attica. Among the detainees were 10 members of the Roma community, while another Roman man was arrested in Penteli suburb on Thursday, media reported. The 46-year-old …

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Some 78 homes were either permanently or temporarily marked an inhabitable by over 60 inspectors of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry after the fire that broke out in north-eastern Attica and Athens on Sunday. From Tuesday to Wednesday, inspector groups checked homes and businesses in the East Attica …

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There has been little talk in the mass media about the causes of the wildfire in Varnavas in north-east Attica on Sunday that developed into an inferno of approximately 40 km within 36 hours. Initial reports on the day the wildfire started blamed “a BBQ” with its fire gone out …

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The charred body of a woman was found late on Monday in a crafts facility that was severely damaged by the fire in Patima of Halandri, in north-east Athens. The body was identified to belong to a 65-year-old woamn from Moldavia who worked in the facility for the last 25 …

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Several countries have responded positive to the request of Greek authorities for assistance from the EU Civil Protection Mechanism (EUCPM) to combat the wildfire raging in north-eastern Athens since Sunday. The Greek request was submitted on Sunday evening activating the EUCPM mechanism. According to latest information on Monday evening, France …

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The big wildfire that started in north-eastern Attica on Sunday has reached the outskirts of NE Athens, Patima areas in the suburbs of Halandri and Vrilissia on Monday afternoon, 24 hours after its start. Skai TV has just reported that at least 3 houses in Patima, Vrilissia have been swallowed …

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Two yachts sank in Marina Zeas in Piraeus and a third one was extensively damaged, after a fire broke out late on  Thursday. One firefighter has been hospitalized due to breathing issues. The Coast Guard evacuated ten people from the pier. The fire broke out in one of the yachts …

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For one more time a large area on the island of Evia is on fire, forcing evacuations of four villages and settlements. This time, it’s the only forest that had escaped fires so far and is now burning in Central Evia. An hour after the fire broke out, two warning …

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A fire in a wagon of the suburban train Proastiakos caused panic among passengers, with firefighters rushing to the scene to avoid the worst. According to local media, the fire broke out while the train was moving in Akrata, a town in Achaia, western Pelopponese on Monday morning. Passengers and …

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What is the Titanic goes down? Main thing, we have fun! This is what most probably the residents of Agia Marina on the island of Zante (Zakynthos) must have thought and kept dancing while the world around them was on fire. In a video posted on social media late on …

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With a week delay, prosecutors have charged eight adult Kazakh nationals who were passengers on the chartered yacht suspected to have started the fire in the forest of the island of Hydra last Friday. The charges are “complicity in arson”. Two minors, aged 14 and 17, who were also on …

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The captain and the 12 crew members of luxury yacht Persephoni I from which fireworks were allegedly were thrown and sparked a forest fire on the island of Hydra on Friday night have been arrested. They were arrested after the yacht docked in the Athens Riviera on Saturday noon. The …

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Anger and outrage on the island of Hydra against people on a luxury yacht who fired fireworks on Friday night and caused a big fire in a rare forest area of the island. The fire broke out in the only pine tree forest of Hydra in an inaccessible area near …

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