PotassiumEnd the fires in Southern Europe: In Greece, most areas of Evia and Peloponnes are on fire. In Italy, due to a forest fire on Saturday night, the emergency services reported about 800 missions across the country; two people were said to have died in the fire there.Turkey also has six burn Still out of control. At night, in many places, you can see the flames blazing into the sky, smelling of smoke, and raining in gray, desolate and desperate.
The photos from the northern part of Evia, the second largest island, are shocking: people there are fighting all night, fighting the flames by all means. Nearly 500 firefighters and countless citizens are on duty. Residents tried to cut off the aisles with tractors to prevent the fire from spreading to their homes. Most areas have power outages, more and more villages have been evacuated, and the fire spread to the island, which is densely covered with pine trees.
Emergency services are on high alert
Greek Civil Defense Minister Nikos Chardalias spoke at the two main lines of fire in Evia and extremely difficult situations across the country. Only in northern Athens has the situation eased recently. However, due to the continuous occurrence of new fires, emergency services are on high alert, Chardalias said.Apart from Firemen The army is also on duty there to prevent new major fires.
Helpers from abroad are also increasingly arriving in Greece. On Saturday night, two helicopters and their crew arrived from Egypt. Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Qatar and Kuwait also pledged to provide assistance. Germany hopes to send 200 firefighters and emergency services from the technical rescue organization; on Sunday morning, among other things, nearly 60 assistants from North Rhine-Westphalia should go to Athens.
Help is urgently needed. Emergency services and residents in the disaster-stricken area have been unable to do anything after working continuously for more than a week. Volunteers from other parts of the country are increasingly going to crisis areas, such as in Turkey, where, according to the disaster control agency Afad, thousands of people go to fire areas alone in support of fighting the fire.
The fire brigade is also in constant use in Italy. Due to forest fires, she moved more than 180 times on Saturday night in Sicily alone. Popular holiday islands have been hit hardest. Rescuers have also performed more than 100 missions in Calabria in the southernmost part of Italy and Puglia in the Adriatic. In Calabria, flames burn in national parks and other places. The fire brigade also reported that two people were killed in forest fires in the area.
