The terrifying video captures the moment people escape wildfires on the ferry and are surrounded by huge flames

• The terrifying footage showed that when people were forced to evacuate, a fire raged on the Greek islands.
• On Friday night, more than 1,300 people had to flee the island of Evia by boat.
• High temperatures and strong winds have caused more than 150 wildfires in the country.
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Scary footage taken from the ferry shows A wildfire As people were forced to evacuate, it swept the Greek island of Evia.

After all other exit routes in Linney Village were cut off by the fire, more than 1,300 residents and holidaymakers living in Linney Village had to flee to the port.

The video posted on social media showed that people on the ferry were watching as it was driving away from a dark landscape engulfed only by red flames.

“This is not a sci-fi movie, but a horror scene in real life. People are evacuated by ferry just to see the flames surrounding the entire landscape behind them as they escape to a safer place in Greece,” said Greek freelance journalist Sotiri Dimpinoudis.Posted a video saying Twitter.

other angle The fire was also posted to social media. Watch below:

High temperatures and strong winds have caused more than 150 wildfires across the country. It is estimated that a total of 2,000 hectares of land were burned and the temperature reached 42 degrees-the highest temperature in Greece since 1987.

According to Reuters, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Kyriakos Mitsotakis) said in a speech to the country on Friday: “Our first priority is always to protect human life, followed by the protection of property, the natural environment and the key. infrastructure.”

“Unfortunately, in this case, it is impossible to achieve all these goals at the same time,” he added.

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