Burning Europe: As fires in the region of France, Portugal and Spain begin to fade slowly after a slight improvement in the weather, the fires in Athens are growing.
Two families in Greece were hospitalized after being trapped inside an apartment. All casualties with smoke injuries and no direct burns from the burning flames. The bulk of the fire is in the area of the Penthali mountain suburb, which is about 25 kilometers from the entrance to the Greek capital.
Janos Artiopus, a spokesman for the fire services in Greece, said that “the conditions are very challenging for us. The priority is to preserve human life, critical infrastructure and private property.”
Along with many fire crews, five firefighting planes and four firefighting helicopters are working to put out a series of fires across Greece, as mentioned mainly in the Athens area.
According to the Greek Interior Ministry, so far 600 people have been evacuated from their homes as a result of the severe fires in the country.
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At the same time, in Spain and Portugal, which have suffered many fires in the past week that have claimed more than 1,000 lives, there has been some calm due to improved weather.
In France, efforts have been made in recent days to create flames to contain the flames by cutting down trees in the heart of forests so that the fires do not catch more and more trees.
Meanwhile, after yesterday in the UK over 40 degrees heat was measured, the heat wave refuses to calm down. In the suburbs of the United Kingdom, London, a huge fire raged.