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Hundreds on Greek island of Evia flee homes as wildfires continue to rage |
2021-08-09 |
[FRANCE24] Hundreds of Greek islanders packed up their belongings and fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia on Sunday as wildfires continued to rage after a record heatwave.Greece and neighbouring ![]() have been battling the devastating fires for nearly two weeks, with 10 people confirmed dead and dozens needing hospital treatment. While rain brought some respite from the blazes in Turkey over the weekend, Greece continues to suffer a hot, dry summer. "They burnt our paradise," 46-year-old islander Triantafyllos Konstantinos told AFP. "We are done." The blazes have destroyed homes and reduced thousands of hectares of land to ash on Evia, Greece's second-largest island just northeast of the capital Athens. Civil protection deputy minister Nikos Hardalias said a fire front in the north of Evia was being pushed by strong winds towards beach villages. "We have ahead of us another difficult evening, another difficult night," he said, adding that 17 aircraft were helping to fight the fires on Evia. |
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