The fire continues on the Greek island of Evia.
Firefighters and volunteers try to stop the fire.
Thousands of households are without electricity.
Athens / Rome / Istanbul - The eighth night in a row it burned on the Greek island of Evia. Firefighters and volunteers try to stop the fire front with all possible means. Hundreds of volunteers arrived in front of the village of Kamatriades in the early evening to form a human chain with the residents and firefighters against the wall of flames that was approaching the place. TV pictures showed large groups of young men with rucksacks and masks lined up. Some had fire extinguishers with them. As the media report, the people come from all over Greece - including some from Athens, it is said.
In addition to Kamatriades, the localities of Istiaia and Avgaria in the same region were evacuated.
Electricity and water supply failed in the fire areas, the fire brigade had to deliver the water in fire trucks.
Many of the helpers were only armed with twigs to beat out the approaching flames.
Fire-fighting planes and helicopters cannot fly in the dark.
The night before, the residents fought desperately against the flames *.
The fires on Evia and Attica have left 17,000 households without electricity, reports the Greek portal
protothema.gr.
on Tuesday.
Power lines and substations are destroyed.
The operators try to repair the damage as quickly as possible.
However, according to the current situation, this should take 10 days.
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Forest fires continue to rage: On the Greek island of Evia, volunteers are fighting the fire.
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Greece "It is obvious that the climate crisis is knocking on the door of the planet"
The Greek government wants to completely reorganize civil defense as a result of the severe fires in the country.
"In the future, the focus will be on prevention, not reaction," said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a televised address on Monday evening.
The construction plan - also for the afforestation, which is to take place according to the latest findings - will be directly subordinated to the Prime Minister.
Athens wants to cope with the rapid reconstruction of burned houses and industrial buildings as well as the aid for other fire damage to the citizens with a special budget of 500 million euros.
Help for the people should be provided unbureaucratically via an online platform.
The determination of the damage had already started on Monday morning in the north of Athens.
In the past few days, 586 fires broke out across the country, Mitsotakis said.
He did not want to take the climate as an excuse for the course of the fires, said the prime minister.
But it is very much the reason for the severe fires: "It is obvious that the climate crisis is knocking on the door of the planet."
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Fire inferno on the Greek island of Evia - helpers fight the flames with branches at night.
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Heat in southern Europe: forest fires in Italy too
In Italy, civil protection continues to receive numerous requests from the Italian regions for air support in the fight against forest fires.
The fire-fighting planes and helicopters flew mostly over burning areas in southern Italian Calabria, on the island of Sicily and in Lazio, where the capital Rome is located, as the civil defense authority announced in the evening in Rome.
The fire brigade brought five fires under control or extinguished them.
The civil protection authority reiterated that the majority of the fires were triggered by careless behavior or willful intent.
A commander of the Carabinieri unit for forest protection told the Ansa news agency on Monday that there are currently 70 fires raging in Italy, mainly in Puglia, Sicily and Calabria.
Due to the extreme heat, high alert applies for Tuesday and Wednesday.
In Sicily and Sardinia, disaster control reckoned up to 45 degrees Celsius in some cases.
Forest fires in Turkey: the situation is slowly easing
The situation in Turkey has eased somewhat in the meantime.
According to official information, three fires are still not under control in the southwest of the country, but residential areas are no longer threatened for the time being.
Because the situation in Greece is currently worse, two fire-fighting planes will be sent to the neighbor, said Forest Minister Bekir Pakdemirli on Monday evening.
Experts in Turkey continue to urge caution.
It should also be very hot and dry in the next few days.
The risk of fire remains high.
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