Firemen were on Tuesday trying to put out a fire that broke out at a tobacco warehouse in the center of Xanthi, in northern Greece.
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Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has issued condolences to families of those killed in a January 9 apartment building blaze in the Bronx that killed 17 people, including eight children.
A woman in her 60s died in a house fire in the northern city of Kilkis on Wednesday.
Firefighters put out a blaze that broke out in a Roma settlement in Paiania, eastern Attica, on Monday morning.
A fire has broken out in a detached house in the neighborhood of Gazi, central Athens, on Wednesday night.
The former chief of Greece’s fire service is due to stand trial on Tuesday over his alleged attempt to cover up failings in the response to the deadly blaze in Mati, eastern Attica, in the summer of 2018.
An investigation is underway after a man died following an apartment fire in the early hours of Monday morning.
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Greece is expected to take delivery within the next few months of two out of seven new firefighting aircraft, whose acquisition is outlined in an agreement signed earlier this month between its Civil Protection Ministry and the European Commission.
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A fire broke out in an apartment block on Thursday in the west Athens suburb of Petroupoli.
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A new 56km road that will run through the northern part of the Evia which this summer was the scene of biggest wildfire recorded in Greece, “will end the road isolation” of the region and facilitate its reconstruction, the prime minister said on Tuesday.
Two children died in a house fire in the impoverished northwestern Athens suburb of Kamatero on Tuesday, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) has reported.
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An elderly woman was found dead by firefighters who were called in to put out a blaze that started in her second-floor apartment in the city of Patras, western Greece, on Thursday morning.
A joint statement by relatives of the dead, local residents’ groups and those injured in the devastating fire that ripped through the eastern Attica resort of Mati in 2018 has protested against its coverage in the recent screenings of the 2019 documentary “Megafires: Investigating a Global Threat,” by Cosima Dannoritzer and Nicolas Koutsikas.
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Firefighting resources from Greece’s European peers are set to be repositioned in the country ahead of the wildfire season next year under the umbrella of the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism (RescEU), Kathimerini understands.
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A fire is burning bushes on the island of Tinos, causing authorities to order the preventive evacuation of three settlements.
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Eighty-four percent of the resources allocated to forest management over the last five years are related to fire suppression and only 16% for their prevention, according to environmental organization WWF Hellas’ report on the end of this year’s fire season.
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