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"Thousands of people in Greece and Turkey have been forced to evacuate homes as
firefighters in the countries battled to contain wildfires fanned by strong
winds and searing heat.
As temperatures in south-eastern Europe exceeded 40C for a seventh straight
day, the Greek prime minister praised rescue workers for waging “a titanic
battle” to bring blazes under control.
“The state mechanism has been called to engage in a titanic battle,
simultaneously responding to dozens of wildfires across the country,” Kyriakos
Mitsotakis said in a statement. “To those who saw their properties destroyed by
the fury of fire, know that the state will stand by your side.”
Eleven regions of Greece face a “very high risk” of fire, and the government
has appealed for help from EU partners to help it deal with fires burning on
multiple fronts.
Emergency services said that while a conflagration that had injured two
firefighters in Kryoneri, north-east of Athens, had been successfully quelled,
fires around Messinia in the south-west Peloponnese and on the popular island
of Kythera had not been contained.
The authorities were also battling flare-ups on the islands of Evia and Crete.
In all of the stricken areas residents received messages to evacuate.
Several regions were placed under a red category 5 alert, the highest on the
national scale, because of conditions exacerbated by the extreme weather that
had turned terrain to tinder."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
