As officials brace for another wildfire station, one that started much earlier than usual due to unseasonably warm weather, a priority is to protect homes and property.
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Tourists who last July were forced to leave the hotels they were staying in on Rhodes when a wildfire broke out, are entitled to a week-long holiday on the Dodecanese island with free accommodation.
The 2023 wildfire season in Europe was among the worst this century, according to a European Commission report published on Wednesday.
The fire season may formally begin on May 1, but forest fires started at the end of March this year, causing particular concern.
A forest fire broke out in the Elafos area of Larissa, central Greece, with 70 fires reported nationwide in the past 24 hours, according to the fire brigade.
A 77-year-old has been arrested for the fire that broke out Monday morning in Markopoulo, eastern Attica.
Authorities across the country remain on alert after 71 wildfires were reported nationwide in the space of just 12 hours on Saturday.
A man was being treated for burns and breathing problems in a hospital in Crete as a wildfire raged out of control in the eastern part o the island on Saturday.
Residents in four villages in Crete have been recommended to evacuate as firefighters battle a large wildfire in a mountainous area northeast of Ierapetra.
With wildfires already breaking out in Greece, Derek Gatopoulos, a correspondent for the Associated Press who has been covering news in Greece for more than 25 years, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how Greece is looking to overhaul its wildfire response in preparation for this summer’s wildfire season.
A 53-year-old woman and her 47-year-old partner are facing trial on charges of arson and assault after a domestic violence incident led to a house being set on fire Wednesday night in a village near the northern port city of Thessaloniki.
Firefighters are on their way to battle a wildfire near the Central Greece village of Kamena Vourla.
In a drill at a 12th century monastery near Athens, a fast-approaching wildfire threatens to trap clergy and a group of people attending a baptism.
Crews continued to battle a wildfire in the Pierian Mountains of the central Macedonia region for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday.
A foreign national who was detained for the forest fire on Mount Ymittos has been remanded in custody after testifying before an investigating magistrate.
A fire at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations on Tuesday killed at least 29 people, officials and reports said. Several people, including managers of the club, were detained for questioning.
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