Greece fires

Cyprus and Sweden have sent firefighting help to Greece in order to aid in get the massive fires raging across the country under control.

It was one of the worst days in modern Greek history. The July 23, 2018 inferno that destroyed the Greek town of Mati left 102 dead and more than 140 in the hospital, many suffering from severe burns. People died in...

Australian ABC's Foreign Correspondent featured the story of the disasterous fires on July 23 in Attica's Mati. As soon as firefighter Andreas Demetriou learned that the wildfires reached Mati, he rushed to find his family. What he saw was devastating. His...

A fire has broken out on the island of Salamina, just a 15 minute ferry ride from Piraeus on the mainland. The fire is in the Kanakia area where 60 scouts were camping. They were evacuated immediately and taken to the...

On Thursday, the director of the Global Fire Observation Center, Johann Georg Goldammer, met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Goldammer is leading the independent investigation into the Attica Fires of last month that took the lives of 96 people and devastated...

Australia will provide disaster assistance to Greece following the devastating fires that struck near Athens on 23 July, according to a press release from the PM's office. Premier Malcolm Turnbull was quoted as saying that "our thoughts and those of the...

At least twenty-four people have died in huge fires raging out of control outside the Greek capital. Twenty deaths were confirmed by Greek government spokesperson Dimitris Tzanakopoulos while four more were found dead in the sea at the area of...