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Firefighters battled for hours since Sunday to extinguish a fire that threatened the historic castle of Monemvasia in Lakonia, southern Greece. Photographs and video footage showed the flames engulfing much of the castle. According to reports, there was no major...

A fireman who was seriously injured during a firefighting operation near the village of Zevgolatio, Corinthia, last week died in the early hours of Monday morning. The 33-year-old trainee fire worker had been in the intensive care unit of a...

A forest fire raging on Zakynthos since Tuesday evening has burned over 1,000 acres of woodland so far, while moving towards Volimes village and creating problems for the road system. According to local Imerazante.gr website, the fire started in the...

One person was found dead and four were rescued in an apartment fire that broke out early Friday morning at Katerini Beach, in North Greece. According to the Fire Department, they received a call for a fire in a tourist...

A forest fire broke out in the Kryoneri, Attica area early on Thursday morning. A team of 45 firefighters rushed to the woodland area, employing 15 vehicles, three aircraft and one helicopter. Strong northern winds make the operation to contain the...

Strong winds are fueling the flames of a forest fire that engulfed an area near the town of Kapandriti in northern Attica. Dozens of firefighters with the aid of two planes and a helicopter are trying to prevent the flames...

Large wildfires are raging in Attica and Messinia, in what is being described as the first large fires of the summer season. With temperatures soaring to 43 degrees Celsius in parts of Greece, firefighters are battling the flames near Krioneri,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke with his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Costa on Sunday to express his condolences for the dozens of victims of the forest fires raging in the country, his office said in a statement. The premier also...

Rescuers in London are working to get residents out of a 27-story apartment tower that has been engulfed in a massive fire for several hours. Officials fear some residents are still trapped in the blaze. A number of people,...

Authorities on Monday arrested a 28-year-old man as a suspect for starting a fire that broke out in Agioi Theodoroi in Corinth on Sunday afternoon, in which one person was killed, two were seriously burned and one home was...