Fires Rampage through Forests in Greece

  • 2/5/2023
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Thrakomakedones, Aug 7, 2021, SPA -- Wildfires rampaged through some of Greece's last remaining forests for yet another day Saturday, encroaching on more inhabited areas after burning scores of homes, businesses and farms during the country's worst heat wave in three decades. One of the massive fires threatened the Greek capital's most important national park and sent choking smoke across the Athens region, where authorities set up a hotline for residents with breathing problems. Thousands of residents and vacationers in areas where fires broke out days ago have fled by land and by sea, AP reported. A local official in the southern Peloponnese region of Mani, the site of another major fire, estimated that 70% of her area had been destroyed. --SPA 15:26 LOCAL TIME 12:26 GMT 0011 www.spa.gov.sa/w1597667

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