Fire

An investigative magistrate Thursday ordered the pre-trial detention of a 45-year-old man from Thessaloniki accused of dousing his elderly father with gasoline and setting him on fire.

The suspect faces felony charges of intentional homicide, attempted homicide and human life-endangering arson.

The Hellenic Fire service said in a Tweet on Monday that a minor has been found dead during an operation to extingush a fire that broke out at the Moria refugee and migrant camp earlier in the afternoon. 

A fire broke out at a refugee center on the island of Lesvos Saturday night, causing considerable damage to a warehouse, Greece's firefighting service says.

Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou holds the torch of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games during a presentation of the seven-day torch relay within Greece in Athens Monday. Georgiou will be the high priestess on March 12 at the official lighting and handover ceremony at Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese.

A 68-year-old homeless man was found dead in a house in the northern suburb of Halandri in Athens which caught fire on Wednesday night, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported Thursday.

The fire service's investigative division believe the blaze likely started from the candles the man had lit to keep warm in the house where he found refuge.

The victims of the devastating fires raging in Australia since Friday are now four, TASS and France Press reported, citing the latest police figures.

A man's body was found near the town of Kempsey, in southeastern New South Wales. He is believed to be a 58-year-old resident who has not been seen since Friday.

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece will be launching a campaign to inform the Greek public of the reasons for its opposition to cremation as a means of disposing of the dead, it decided at a meeting on Wednesday.

The Church has a duty to follow the scriptures on the issue, it said, pointing to the teachings of Christ's resurrection.

Stara Planina has been on fire since Sunday, with nearly 140 firefighters from across Serbia fighting it on extremely inaccessible terrain, along with the members of the Gendarmerie.
They mostly walk a few miles to the place, RTS reports. Pirot City Emergency Management Coordinator Sreten Savov said the situation was changing from hour to hour.

Experts from more than 10 countries working in the area of prevention of forest fires on October 10 visited the Southwestern State Enterprise in Blagoevgrad, South Bulgaria. Their goal was to learn more about the work of the teams in managing the big fire in Bulgaria's Kresna Gorge, which broke out two years ago and affected more than 14,000 decares of forests, BNT reported.

Fifteen years after cremations were legalized in Greece, the country's first such facility has opened in Ritsona on the island of Evia, and has already carried out 15 cremations.

Licensed in the summer of 2018 and inaugurated on September 30, the private venture is 70 percent owned by Crem Services SA. The nongovernmental Greek Cremation Society (GCS) holds a 30 percent stake.