August 23, 2023
environment, FEATURED
A “Very High Risk of Fires”Extreme Fires Risk” (risk category 4) has been forecast in six Greek regions for Wednesday, August 23, 2023, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection ministry. It is the “Hot-Dry-Windy” …
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August 22, 2023
environment, FEATURED
Suburbs in western Athens and villages in Attica were evacuated as of early Tuesday afternoon, factories, storehouses and homes were burned down, parts of highway ring was closed, a local airbase is on alert and the blue Attica sky turned grey due to wildfires in Fyli at the foot of …
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August 22, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Eleven newborn babies were evacuated from the General Hospital in Alexandroupolis on Monday night due to the wildfires raging in the area. Ten babies were transferred in batches to the hospital in Kavala. One of the newborn babies had reportedly to be intubated and was transferred to the hospital in …
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August 21, 2023
environment, FEATURED
Dozens of fire fronts are burning forests, houses, animal farms and agricultural land across Greece on Monday and hundreds of firefighters are battling the flames. Villages and settlements have been evacuated and roads have been closed to traffic. The worst enemy of the firefighters are the powerful winds blowing with …
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August 20, 2023
environment, FEATURED
An “Extreme Fires Risk” (risk category 5) has been forecast in three Greek regions and “Very High Risk” (risk category 4) for another ten regions has been forecast for Monday, August 21, 2023, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the …
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August 17, 2023
environment
Firefighters were still trying to put out a fire on Wednesday evening that broke out in the afternoon between the villages of Venerato and Kiparissi in Heraklio prefecture on the island of Crete. The fire started burning low brush in an area called Sinapi. A total of 13 firefighters with …
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August 13, 2023
environment
A very high risk of fires (risk category 4) has been forecast for Sunday, August 13, in six regions of Greece, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection ministry. The regions with a Very High …
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August 11, 2023
environment
A very high risk of fires (risk category 4) has been forecast for Saturday, August 12, in several Greek regions, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection ministry. The regions with a Very High …
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August 9, 2023
environment, FEATURED
A very high fires danger (risk category 4) has been forecast for Thursday, August 10, in five Greek islands, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection ministry. The remaining islands across the country are marked …
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August 8, 2023
environment
A very high fires danger (risk category 4) has been forecast for Wednesday, August 9, in eight regions of Greece, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection ministry. The regions with a high fires danger …
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August 7, 2023
environment, FEATURED
Eleven large-scale fires in the Attica Region from 2017 to the end of July 2023 have destroyed over 55,000 hectares (550,000 stremmas), the National Observatory of Athens/meteo.gr said on Monday. The data were provided by the European Union’s Copernicus mapping services and the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). Excluding …
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August 7, 2023
environment
A very high fire danger (risk category 4) has been forecast for Tuesday in nine regions of Greece, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection ministry. The regions with a high fire danger include: Attica …
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July 28, 2023
Greece, Politics
After 15 days of extreme weather phenomena and 10 days with more than 600 fires, this was the first day that Greece was not in a state of red alert, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said during a press conference on Friday. Kikilias spoke of a “difficult …
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July 27, 2023
environment, FEATURED
A total of 594 fires broke out in Greece in 10 days, under heatwave conditions and with high-velocity winds, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Wednesday. Of the 594 fires, 571 were put out before they spread. Five of them spread extensively to Dervenochoria, Corfu, Rhodes, …
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July 26, 2023
environment, FEATURED
Greece’s Civil Protection issued an ALERT warning of Extreme Fires Risk (category 5) for seven regions across the country for Thursday, July 27, 2023. At the same time, the Fires Risks WARNING lists another eight regions at Very High Risk (category 4). Regions marked Yellow are regions with “High risk” …
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July 26, 2023
environment, FEATURED, Social, Society
The fires in the Magnisia Prefecture in Central Greece claimed the lives of two people on Wednesday. Firefighters recovered the body of a man which they found in a burned forest short before 8 o’ clock in the evening. The man is believed to be a 46-year-old missing shepherd who …
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July 26, 2023
environment, FEATURED
A state of emergency was declared for the entire island of Rhodes on Wednesday due to the fires that are burning for the 9th consecutive day. The Civil Protection has declared “state of emergency” to ten municipal units of the fire-striken island of Rhodes since July 18. Like a “Lernaean …
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July 26, 2023
environment, FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The charred body of a missing shepherd was found on Tuesday at a hard to access area in Platanistos of Karystos, in south Evia currently battling fires. Concerned about the safety of his sheep, the 41-year-old man went out on Sunday afternoon to move his animals to a place safe …
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July 25, 2023
environment, FEATURED
Greece’s Civil Protection issued an ALERT warning of Extreme Fires Risk (category 5) for six regions across the country on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. At the same time, the Fires Risks WARNING lists another six regions at Very High Risk (category 4). Regions marked Yellow are regions with “High risk” …
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July 24, 2023
Uncategorized
Greece’s Civil Protection has issued an emergency bulletin warning of Extreme Fire Risk in 5 regions and Very High Fire Risk for another 13 regions on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. According to the Fire Risk Prediction Map issued by the General Secretariat of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate …
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