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For the second day in a row, Greek firefighters are battling flames after several fires broke out in a forest area that forced the evacuation of a small village west of Athens, the latest blazes after a difficult week for the country, when throughout Greece is dominated by strong winds and high temperatures.
More than 150 firefighters aided by several aircraft and 42 vehicles are battling the blaze that broke out around midday Tuesday near the coastal town of Porto Germeno, 70 kilometers west of Athens.
Even in Ilia of the Peloponnese peninsula, after a few hours, fire brigade forces with more than 60 people and 19 vehicles were able to bring the fire under control. In the area of Itea, more than 300 hectares of olive land have burned, while the fires that were almost extinguished in the area of Pyrgos, have again started to burn forest areas.
According to the fire service, in the last 24 hours more than 138 fires were registered throughout the country, while calls are made for some areas with high fire risk in Athens, on the island of Evia, in some areas of Thessaloniki, some Aegean islands, in Halkidiki , Viotia, Corinth, Crete and in western Greece.
A few days ago, 28 out of 200 firefighters arrived in Greece with their equipment from Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Romania and Norway, who provide support for fighting fires in the country for 60 days, as part of the aid that is financed and coordinated. under the EU civil protection mechanism.
Greece is on high alert this year after the country was ravaged by fires on several fronts last year for weeks, burning homes and hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest, following the worst heat wave in decades.
The country also has bitter memories of the 2018 fire that engulfed the north-eastern coastal town of Mati near Athens, leaving 102 dead.
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