wildfire

A wildfire that has blazed on the southern island of Kythira since Friday morning continues for a fourth day. Firefighters are now battling the blaze in the south-west part of the island, near the famous Monastery of Myrtidion. Nuns and...

The wildfire is ranging on Kythira for a third day and a "state of emergency" was declared on Saturday, after four settlements had to be evacuated. One third of the island’s forest and low vegetation areas have been burned...

Fire fighters have been struggling all day and all night to extinguish the huge wildfire that broke out on the island of Kythira on Friday morning. One settlement was evacuated and power outages occurred. The fire broke in the agricultural...

Three firefighters have been hospitalized with burns and local authorities have issued an evacuation order for residents near a seaside town south of Athens as a wildfire fueled by high winds threatened homes, but has now been contained, authorities...

A wildfire broke out earlier on Sunday in a forest near Agia Anna, Evia island. The blaze burns pine trees and according to Fire Brigade no inhabited areas are endangered. Twenty one fire engines with a 49 member-crew, 14 firefighters on...

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,...

A wildfire that broke out on Sunday in a forest area in the Aghioi Theodoroi area, near Corinth, left one woman dead. The blaze reached a residential area, burning one house completely and damaging another. Gusty winds were blowing in...

At around 11 am on Monday, an Air Force Chinook helicopter brought Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to the Greek island of Thassos, where firefighters have been battling the flames of a wildfire for the past three days. After surveying the...

As of Monday morning, the wildfire that has been blazing in northern Evia for the past three days still threatens the town of Limni (Lake), and authorities have now anchored a boat near the port incase an emergency evacuation is...

On an official visit to the Aegean island of Chios, Rural Development and Foods Minister Vangelis Apostolou said the government will benchmark 500,000 euros to help promote and advertise mastic gum products following the devastating wildfire that swept through...