fires

Blazes in Peloponnese and Crete Under Control

Fires broke out during the night of May 28, in the Peloponnese and the Greek islands of Crete and Kefalonia. A blaze broke out around 10 pm in a grassland area in Giannitsena,  Kyparissia, in the Peloponnese. Because of stormy...

Fires Spread in Greece, State of Emergency on Rhodes

The plague of wildfires in Greece this summer has hit forested areas on the Greek islands of Hydra, Rhodes and Crete and in the northern city of Florina, the Athens News Agency reported. A state of emergency was declared in...