wildfires

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis went to the town of Mati, Attica, on Tuesday morning to attend a memorial service held for the 102 victims of the national tragedy which hit the area exactly one year ago. The service took...

Official data from Greece's Fire Service was brought into the spotlight by Greek daily Kathimerini on Wednesday, which revealed that one in two incidents of wildfires in Greece in 2018 were caused by deliberate acts of arson. This shocking revelation becomes...

Greek media revealed on Wednesday that Greece is notably absent from the newly-established ''RescEU'' initiative, a common European Union fleet dedicated to firefighting. The ''RescEU'' project aims to assist the national authorities in any EU member state when natural disasters, such...

Local officials from Thessaloniki announced on Wednesday that they have selected two new methods to fight wildfires in the city's peri-urban forest of Sheikh Sou, or Cedar Hill, as it is officially known. The two methods include three radar dishes, which...

An area of 1,534 hectares was burnt on Crete in 2018 by the fires that broke out on the island during the year. According to Greece’s Fire Brigade, 556 fires that burned farmland and forests were recorded on the island...

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 26-year-old woman who was hospitalized in Athens' Evangelismos Hospital died earlier today, rising the number of victims from the worst wildfires in Greek history to 99.

The 23rd of July 2018 will be remembered for the devastating wildfires in Eastern Attica region and especially the seaside town of Mati, where dozens of innocent people died trying to escape from the fire. The very same day though,...

 A sizable fire has ignited on the island of Corfu in an area dense with forest, and some population, according to reports. The outbreak of the fire was at the village of Rachtades, which was evacuated by the authorities. The...

The official toll from wildfires in East Attica has reached 93, following the death on Thursday of a hospitalized victim. The latest fatality was a 78-year-old woman from Mati with chronic health issues who was in the intensive care unit...