ATHENS. Attica, the region of Athens, has experienced another dramatic night due to the fires that, despite the incessant work of firefighters, firefighting planes and volunteers, with forces and means also coming from abroad, flare up without control over the Parnitha mountains, in Agios Stefanos and Malakasa, north of the capital. A situation that could get worse due to the strong winds that blow over the area today.
According to the site in.gr, the situation is particularly critical in Thrakomakedones and Varybombi, on the Parnitha, where several houses have already been burned and the fires continue to advance. Police and firefighters are attempting to evacuate residents who refuse to abandon their properties. Between the centers of Ippokratio Politia and Malakasa – along the Athens-Lamia highway – a large area covered with pine forests is burning, and the fire is pointing towards the village of Oropos.
A reception center for migrants was evacuated yesterday in Malakasa: about 2,000 people were transferred elsewhere. Other fires on the Agios Stefanos front have destroyed houses in the small towns of Pefkofyto and Pontia, as they move around the lake of Marathon. The emergency number 112 sent a message this morning at 6 am asking for the evacuation of the areas of Agia Skepi, Agia Paraskevi, Kapitenia, Vrysaki, Loufos Kouremenos, all around Varybombi. And the flames have continued to burn for days on hectares of vegetation on the island of Evia, near Ancient Olympia, on the Mani peninsula and in Melpeia, in the Messinia region, both in the Peloponnese.
“The fires continue uncontrolled, they burn forests, destroy houses and are threatening human lives. We want a good number of planes for the fires, which we have been asking for since the first day and more vehicles than firefighters”, is the appeal made by Fanis Spanos , governor of the central region of Greece on which the island of Euboea depends, which continues to be devastated by flames. “If we do nothing, the fires will spread everywhere,” Spanos adds in his Facebook appeal. In recent days, hundreds of inhabitants of the island have had to leave their homes because they were threatened by the flames, dozens have been rescued by sea from the beaches where they had taken refuge.
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