2024-06-23 10:46:48
Greek authorities arrested 13 individuals, crew and passengers of a cruise ship in Greece this Saturday, after they allegedly launched fireworks from the ship that precipitated a forest hearth within the island of Hydra.
Like many corporations, the firefighters managed to regulate the hearth, though it ended up burning solely a part of the pine forest on the island, situated within the district of Bisti, south of Athens. It is usually an space that’s troublesome to entry with out roads, so that they needed to method the hearth by boat, based on the Fb account of the Greek hearth division.
The Department Fires despatched him sentence publication during which they mentioned that the detainees must testify earlier than the prosecutor this Sunday. “The arrests comply with allegations that the forest hearth was brought on by fireworks launched from a cruise ship on Friday night time,” an official concerned within the case informed Reuters.
“We’re upset by the truth that some individuals threw fireworks right into a pine forest irresponsibly,” Mayor Giorgos Koukoudakis informed Greek radio station ERT.
This truth has provoked anger not solely from the mayor, but in addition from completely different individuals on social networks, particularly contemplating {that a} troublesome warmth is anticipated within the nation, which sees a warning interval for forest fires.
For days, tons of of firefighters have been combating a number of fires which have occurred all through the area and have acquired their first dying, because the spokesperson for the hearth division defined to EFE.
The sufferer is a 55-year-old man who helped put out a big hearth within the space of Elis, within the Peloponnese peninsula (south), the place the biggest fronts within the nation are at present situated. “He did not sleep and when the ambulance arrived he was alive, however later we had been informed he was lifeless,” the spokesman mentioned.
About 50 firefighters, together with 19 vans, 6 helicopters and a helicopter labored within the space to comprise this forest hearth that has a entrance of 10 kilometers, based on native media.
The hearth was compelled out of at the least 10 cities, whereas extinguishing operations had been made troublesome by robust winds. In the meantime, greater than 100 firefighters with 38 vans, 3 helicopters and a helicopter are combating one other massive forest hearth within the area of Achaia. Fires have already compelled the evacuation of at the least 5 cities within the area.
On account of this nice threat, the Greek Civil Protection has declared a state of alert in Athens since this Friday and has ordered the closure of parks and native forests resulting from excessive temperatures, which already reached 40 levels.
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