Police on Wednesday were investigating the cause of a fire at dawn that engulfed a parked truck on Olympiados Street in the center of Thessaloniki.
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There has been no serious atmospheric burden as a result of the fire that broke out at a high-voltage power station in a suburb of Attica on Sunday night that led to power outages in Athens and Piraeus as well as areas of the Peloponnese peninsula, according to a team of Environment Ministry inspectors that visited the site on Monday.
Regions across Greece were hit by power cuts on Sunday night after a fire broke out at a high-voltage power station in a suburb of Athens, the fire brigade and officials at the country's power grid operator, ADMIE, said.
Greece’s General Secretariat for Civil Protection signed a deal with the European Investment Bank on Thursday for a total of 595 million euros in aid over a period of five years to help upgrade its infrastructure and better respond to natural disasters.
The Piraeus Court of First Instance found five people guilty on Wednesday in the criminal trial of 11 Greek nationals over the deadly fire that broke out on one of the garage decks of the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic passenger ferry on December 28, 2014.
The testimony of dozens of fire and other officers and witnesses on the ground during the deadly 2018 east Attica wildfires point to a string of oversights that appear to lie mainly with the Hellenic Fire Service.
The investigator who has requested the upgrade of the charges faced by fire brigade and civil protection officials from misdemeanors to felonies over their management of the deadly fire in Mati in 2018 is citing fresh evidence to back his case.
A mother and daughter were injured in an explosion, believed to have involved a gas canister for cooking, in their apartment in the Patissia district of Athens on Tuesday morning.
Firefighters sent to put out a blaze that started in a hotel on the island of Santorini found the body of a man in its premises, the fire service said.
The magistrate supervising the investigations into the response of emergency services to the deadly 2018 east Attica wildfire, on Friday submitted his third request for the gravity of the charges against certain fire service officers to be increased.
A fire has burnt through tents and some structures in a refugee camp on the eastern Greek island of Samos. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
A fire has broken out at the Vathy Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on the Greek island of Samos.
Firefighters on Rhodes on Tuesday brought under control a wildfire that had broken out in forestland near the village of Asklipeio in the island’s south.
Two months after a wildfire charred the entrance to the treasured archaeological site of Mycenae, one of Greece's most visited ancient complexes, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni and Peloponnese Regional Governor Panagiotis Nikas on Monday signed a 650,000-euro contract for a scheme to protect the site from further blazes. The site’s greenery has been restored and an anti-fire system is to be installed in due course. Although the fire in late August did not damage the monuments at Mycenae, it blackened much of the fortified acropolis. The Bronze Age fortress city was a major center of Mediterranean civilization. [Culture Ministry/ANA-MPA]
A small brush fire that started at an overcrowded refugee center on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Samos has burned about 15 tents but caused no injuries, Greek authorities said Monday.
Firefighters have managed to contain a fire at the Vathy Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) for migrants and refugees on the island of Samos.
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