Ecological succession
Investigators rule out short-circuit scenario in Evia blaze
The Greek fire department's special arson section (DAEE), which is investigating a large wildfire that burned the island of Evia last week, have ruled out the possibility of a short circuit, Kathimerini understands.
The Canary Islands Are on Fire, more than 5,000 People Were Evacuated Urgently
Huge forest fires rage on the Canary Islands. Flames, up 50 meters high, covered 3,400 hectares, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 5,000 people urgently, the Associated Press reported.
Organized civil protection
Despite the environmental damage caused by the major wildfire on the island of Evia earlier this week, the worst did not come to pass. But no system of civil protection should rely solely on the readiness of its leadership and the moral sense of its staff.
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About 2,800 hectares of forestland turned to ash in Evia
The wildfire that raged across central parts of the island of Evia from Tuesday and overnight until yesterday morning destroyed some 2,800 hectares of forestland in what authorities have described as an "ecological disaster."
Evia fire confined to a gorge away from villages
The overnight efforts of nearly 400 firefighters, aided by calmer winds, have confined the wildfire on the island of Evia into a gorge away from the village of Platania, which had faced an imminent threat Wednesday.
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Fire resurges on Evia, challenges firefighters
Aircraft and firefighters on the ground fought a blaze that burned large tracts of pristine pine forest on the Greek island of Evia on Wednesday as the wildfire flared up again at different spots.
A state of emergency has been declared in regions of the densely forested island east of Athens, after the blaze broke out on Tuesday, fanned by strong winds and high temperatures.
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Firefighting planes battle blaze on Greek island of Evia
Greek firefighters backed by water-dropping planes and helicopters were battling a wildfire burning through a protected nature reserve on the island of Evia for a second day Wednesday, where hundreds of people had been evacuated from four villages and a monastery.
100 People are Fighting the Wildfire in Southern Bulgaria
The wildfire near villages of Bryagovo, Rodopi, and Lyubenovo in the south Bulgarian district of Haskovo, engulfed nearly 8,000 decares of land, half of it with deciduous forest.
Some 100 people, including firefighters, forest officials, and military, are taking part in the efforts to extinguish the fire.
Wildfire continues to rage in Evia, smoke reaches Athens
A large wildfire fanned by strong winds burned tracts of pine forest on the Greek island of Evia, firefighters said on Tuesday, with evacuation ordered of two villages in the path of the flames.
Wildfires raged uncontrolled in at least four other Greek regions, and the fire brigade said it had been called to put out 182 fires in the last three days.
Fate and progress
The two biggest wildfires to have hit Greece so far this summer season were both uncomfortably familiar: The first was started by a faulty power cable and the second at a rubbish dump.
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