In Greece, three villages located about 50 kilometers south-east of Athens were evacuated as a precaution on Monday August 16, while a new vegetation fire broke out near the port of Lavrio which serves some islands in the Cyclades, a learned AFP from the firefighters.
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As during the wave of fires which set Greece ablaze during a fifteen-day heatwave, an alert message was sent by SMS to the inhabitants of Markati, Syderina and Agios Konstantinos, so that they immediately evacuate their homes. locality.
"
The fire has a broad front and the winds are very strong in the area,
" vice-governor of eastern Attica, Thanasis Avgerinos, told AFP.
The hills there
are covered with pine trees and therefore very flammable.
Some houses have already had to be damaged,
”he added.
More than 80 firefighters, aided by 30 trucks and 10 planes and helicopters water bombers, were deployed on these arid hills ablaze by a line of flames, firefighters told AFP.
Another fire identified further north
A second fire also broke out this Monday, August 16 in Vilia, in a forest 60 km northwest of Athens, where around forty firefighters, ten planes and helicopters water bombers and around twenty devices were mobilized, according to the fire and rescue services. Two villages were also evacuated on this front. The General Secretariat for Civil Protection has warned of an increased risk of fires due to high winds.
Nearly 103,000 hectares have been burnt since the end of July in Greece, hit by an exceptional heatwave in early August.
The island of Evia, 200 km northeast of Athens, has paid the heaviest price with more than half of the hectares burned, dozens of homes and herds devastated.
But the Peloponnese peninsula, 200 km west of Athens, and the northern suburbs of the capital were also badly affected by the some 600 fires that set the country ablaze in a few days and were finally declared under control on Friday. August 13.
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If the mercury has fallen throughout Greece, around 30 degrees Celsius Monday, August 16 in the capital, the firefighters deployed by the hundreds, with foreign reinforcements, remained mobilized in the face of the risk of resurgence.
