athens fires

athens fires

ATHENS - Fierce flames in the suburbs north of Athens in the gusting winds by Sunday licked swallowed swaths of a forested, home of thousands of residents in areas and fanned no need to empty the burning.

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Volunteers, as a marathon struggle to hell north of Athens, on Sunday.
For the third day of this fire raged uncontrolled, 14 Greek capital and the town will not Mount Penteli regions, the last natural barrier has been erected on the Athenian plain protection, and a rash with the hidden races throughout the northeast fringes.

Fire late Friday Grammatikos, 25 kilometers northeast of Athens at the start and spread quickly southeast, on the Feast of large swathes of trees and olive groves, pine.

This so fire fire Tornadoes are produced in their swirling hot air, and the column of smoke hundreds of feet-wind and heat in all directions until the fire had created the scattering of flames, authorities said.

Sunday at noon, with the authorities Aghios Stephanos, 14 miles north of Athens, where 20,000 residents in flames raged for control of the discharge, the home and around the pine and olive gardens sad ordered.

"Everything is up in flames here," Panagiotis Vorias, Aghios Stefanos, the mobile contact and the mayor said. "We as a precaution I had no other options for evacuation."

Local police, he said, for those who live further south, including New Erythrea burning and Kifissia suburb or close to the main national highway or neighboring districts to escape high tone per horn were used.

Authorities, said small-scale evacuations of Dionysus, in Athens in a plush northern suburbs were ordered in a neighboring region.

"This situation" tragic Yiannis Sgouros, governor of the great Athens area, he said. "Fire control, except in many fronts."

In my case it would be, but the government, fear the increasing damage, great for Athens on Saturday, also authorized by the fireman of the "Titanic efforts" and called to hell including European Union member countries requested assistance from the state of emergency was declared reported.

Five water bombers and a helicopter, France, Italy and Cyprus had expected, but it is Europe Greek rescue teams, fire resources stretched too thin to help is by plane remained uncertain.

In total, 12 fire fighting aircraft and nine helicopters, have destroyed nearly 30,000 hectares of forest over, there were many struggles and olive trees in agriculture, according to state NET television network.

Sunday more than 600 firefighters and soldiers and the northern suburbs, two children's hospitals in Penteli dramatic was deployed after the leadership of evacuations in one night. Camps, monasteries and villages and areas of nursing homes by fire late Saturday as the threat was cleared.

Again after an eight-hour pause dawn water drops. kilometer per hour winds and 30 Athens metropolitan area of 7 km, and snaking through the suburbs home in Mount Penteli fire exploded to reach.

Flames under control in the period authorized by the regions during the day as rekindled, rash infernos closer to the city, Aghios Stefanos, Anthousa, Pallini, Pikermi and Dionysus and the suburbs with big, moved.

These include the marathon, long run and was named modern remote-year-old former citadels where authorities Rhamnus, two in 2500 to save the home of archaeological Scrambling is provided.

Roads south traffic is jammed with ocher-thick plumes of smoke color - even visible area - Attica's billowed from the charred plains, obscuring Athens Skyline shrouding and Sunday.

Scores of residents are running amok, who escaped the burning home, is seen, some on foot. Other evacuation calls occur. The fire in their feature fight encroaching shovels, buckets and water hoses were using.

The harrowing images, at least 65 people died in 2007, when the memory of living man, and Greece's deadly wildfires west of Evian Mora 10 days thousands of acres, and 2007 have evoked memories raged.

Wildfires in Greece the summer season, usually a high temperature, wind, drought, or due to arson are often encountered. More than 100 since Friday raged across the country have blazed