2023-08-28 14:30:00
The fire that started more than a week ago in Dadia, a nature park in northeast Greece known for its birds of prey, remains “out of control”, firefighters said on Monday.
“The fire continues out of control (…) about 500 firefighters supported by 100 vehicles, seven planes and three helicopters are fighting the flames,” a spokesman for this service told AFP.
The front of the fire covers almost 10 km, estimated firefighters at the scene.
The fire, which started on Aug. 19, is wreaking havoc in the Evros river region, bordering Turkey, near the port city of Alexandroupolis.
Nineteen people, apparently migrants, including two children, were found dead last week in the north of that city.
The European Copernicus Observatory (EMS) estimated on the X network (formerly Twitter) that the fire had already devastated 77,000 hectares.
This summer in the northern hemisphere, Greece is facing a lot of fires, which the government attributes to climate change. More than 120,000 hectares have burned so far, according to estimates by the Greek national observatory, three times the annual average, according to Copernicus data.
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