It concerns a 62-year-old woman who was found dead in a factory in Vrilissia, on the outskirts of the Greek capital. 50,000 people have been evacuated and 10,000 hectares have been burned.
The large forest fire, with a front of 40 kilometers, which advance north of Athenshas already been charged fatalitya 62-year-old woman who died in a factory destroyed by flames.
The body is in a factory Vrilissiaon the outskirts of the Greek capital. “I don’t know why he didn’t leave when everyone else did,” the company owner complained in statements to the ERT network.
The fire was forced about 50,000 people evacuatewhile the government of Georgia Meloni has asked the European Union for help in fighting a fire that has already destroyed 10,000 hectares.
More than 700 firefighters, with 200 trucks, 17 planes and 15 tank helicopters, are working tirelessly across a large area north and east of the capital to stop the fire that started on Sunday.
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen has announced that four European Union countries will send ground and air resources to Greece to help with the extinction efforts. “We stand with Greece in the fight against the devastating fires. The European Union is sending support from its ‘rescEU’ fleet: two planes from Italy and a helicopter from France. Firefighters from the Czech Republic and Romania have also been deployed,” the president of the European Executive said in a message on her X account.
The situation was extremely difficult in the urban areas of Vrilisia and Jalandrí 13 kilometers northeast of the center of Athensand where dozens of homes and businesses were set on fire.
Firefighters have concentrated their efforts in this area as well as in the towns of Nea Penteli and Palia Penteli, where homes, businesses and a school have also been set on fire.
Thirteen people were treated for minor breathing problems, while one firefighter was hospitalized “with severe burns to his feet and hands” and another suffered minor burns, the fire service said.
The weather conditions are not helping in the fight against the fire: “The wind is very strong and the morphology of the terrain or the vegetation, which mainly consists of pines and holly trees that burn quickly, is not helping us either,” said a spokeswoman for the firefighters.
Although fires on the outskirts of Athens have been very frequent during the summer in recent years, this is the case the first time that a fire spreads so close to the center of the capitalwithin the urban fabric of the city.
Last year, Greece suffered a disastrous summer in which dozens of fires burned a record 160,000 hectares (1.21% of its territory), killing 28 people in the flames.
Source: EITB
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