Attica, the region of Athens, has experienced another dramatic night due to the fires that, despite the incessant work of firefighters, firefighting planes and volunteers, with forces and means also arriving from abroad, flare up without control over the Parnitha mountains, in Agios Stefanos and Malakasa, north of the capital.
A situation that could get worse due to the strong winds that blow over the area today.
According to the site in.gr, the situation is particularly critical in Thrakomakedones and Varybombi, on the Parnitha, where several houses have already been burned and the fires continue to advance. Police and firefighters are attempting to evacuate residents who refuse to abandon their properties. Between the centers of Ippokratio Politia and Malakasa - along the Athens-Lamia highway - a large area covered with pine forests is burning, and the fire is pointing towards the village of Oropos. Yesterday in Malakasa a reception center for migrants was evacuated: about 2,000 people were transferred elsewhere. Other fires on the Agios Stefanos front have destroyed houses in the small towns of Pefkofyto and Pontia, as they move around the lake of Marathon.
The emergency number 112 sent a message this morning at 6 am asking for the evacuation of the areas of Agia Skepi, Agia Paraskevi, Kapitenia, Vrysaki, Loufos Kouremenos, all around Varybombi. And the flames have continued to burn for days on hectares of vegetation on the island of Evia, near Ancient Olympia, on the Mani peninsula and in Melpeia, in the Messinia region, both in the Peloponnese.