Sunday, 13 October , 2024

Fires

Tragic Stories of Those Who Lost Everything in Evia Fire

By Anna Wichmann August 5, 2021 Photo Credit: Apostolos Makris/Greek Reporter As the ash settles over the beautiful Greek island of Evia, where a series of fires...

Des politiques criminelles mettent le feu en Grèce, en Turquie et...

Aug. 9, 2021 Nous publions ci-dessous la déclaration publique de la campagne Kasma birak / Μας σκάβουν τον λάκκο à propos des incendies de forêt...

Rolling power cuts in Attica from Aug 6 to avoid blackout...

Aug. 6, 2021 The Greek Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) will implement controlled rolling power cuts in Athens and Attica in order to avoid a...

Greece battles deadly wildfires near Athens and on Evia island

Aug 6, 2021 Greece carried out mass evacuations overnight in the northern suburbs of Athens and on the nearby island of Evia as wind whipped...

Les incendies en Grèce, révélateurs de la crise sociale que vit...

Par Laury-Anne Cholez Aug 4, 2021 La Grèce vit une situation climatique calamiteuse. Les chaleurs intenses et record favorisent le développement de nombreux feux de forêt...

Incendies en Grèce : Varympompi, le poumon d’Athènes dévasté

Par Anne Devineaux  & Fay Doulgkeri Aug 5, 2021 Des pins calcinés, des maisons détruites, un paysage de désolation à 30 kilomètres au nord d'Athènes. Varympompi était considéré comme...

Eight dead as wildfires sweep Turkey, Greece and Italy – forcing...

Fires are common in southern Turkey during the hot summer but experts have said this year's are much bigger than usual. Aug. 2, 2021 Wildfires are...

Thousands evacuate as multiple blazes threaten Israeli communities amid heatwave

Dozens of firefighting teams fight conflagrations across country; several homes hit in Kfar HaOranim, Nof Hagalil; disruptions on highways 6 and 443 9 October 2020 Firefighters...

Portugal’s response to forest fires undermined by austerity

Between 2000 and 2013, Portugal, which comprises less than 10 percent of the landmass in Europe’s Mediterranean region, recorded a third of the fires. The number of fires has increased from around 3,000 in 1980 to around 20,000 a year today. They are always followed by an official enquiry and report, which blames the lack of firefighting resources,