Greece, France, and Montenegro have joined forces in a scientific program dubbed MediterRE3 that is aimed at adopting management practices to reduce the risk and extent of wildfires, as well as the resulting carbon emissions.
Greece, France, and Montenegro have joined forces in a scientific program dubbed MediterRE3 that is aimed at adopting management practices to reduce the risk and extent of wildfires, as well as the resulting carbon emissions.
The deputy mayor of Lavreotiki Municipality was presented before a prosecutor on Wednesday at the Athens Misdemeanor Court after being arrested as the suspected arsonist behind a fire that erupted on Tuesday in an outdoor agricultural waste disposal area in Lavrio.
By this time of the year, rain should be drenching large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Instead, a punishing drought has kept the rains at bay, creating dry conditions for fires that have engulfed hundreds of square miles of the rainforest that do not usually burn.
A fire broke out on Thursday in a forested area near the town of Kandanos, close to Ηania, on the island of Crete, the Fire Service reported.
A prosecutor on Tuesday asked for guilty verdicts for nine of the 21 defendants in the trial regarding the response to the deadly fire that ripped through the East Attica town of Mati in July 2018, claiming 104 lives.
A prosecutor has recommended that nine out of the 21 defendants be found guilty in the trial regarding the response to the deadly fire that ripped through the East Attica suburb of Mati in July 2018.
Two elderly siblings, an 84-year-old man and an 89-year-old woman, were found dead after a fire erupted in their home in Nafpaktos, western Greece.
A house fire in Athens’ northern Palaio Psychiko suburb saw firefighters recover one deceased elderly man from the blaze.
Firefighters responding to an apartment blaze in Iraklio on the island of Crete on Wednesday found an unconscious 73-year-old woman.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the official launch of two fireboats on Wednesday, describing it as a significant step in a 2.1-billion-euro investment in its fire service and civil protection.
The prosecutor in the ongoing trial regarding the response to the deadly fire that ripped through the East Attica suburb of Mati in July 2018 highlighted what he described as huge deficiencies in firefighting and aerial means, in coordination, prevention and extinguishing measures, holding the defendants responsible for criminal acts and omissions.
A wildfire broke out on Sunday in the village of Kato Gerakari on the island of Zakynthos. Strong firefighting forces swiftly responded to the scene as powerful winds, reaching up to 8 Beaufort, swept through the area.
A fire broke out at an abandoned building in Athens’ Moschato neighborhood on Friday, the fire service has reported.
Six months after a firestorm destroyed the town of Lahaina, Hawaii, a detailed new report on the tragedy reveals that a large number of victims died along a single street – a stark indication of the ferocity of the blaze that swept through the historic island town, killing 100 people.
A fire broke out under undetermined conditions at a scrap metal recycling yard in Diavata near the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday.
A fire broke out Thursday night at the Holy Monastery of St Nicholas in Ypsilandis, Viotia, to the northwest of Athens leaving two nuns dead.