For two weeks, Greece has been fighting against the flames. The fires have already caused the death of five people, caused by the gusts of wind in the area. Hundreds of firefighters, from all over the European Union, are trying to reduce the fires on the islands of Rhodes, Corfu and Euboea, as well as on a new front declared on Wednesday in central Greece.
Early Thursday, another fire broke out near houses in a leafy Athens suburb of Kifissia, but it was quickly extinguished. According to authorities, some 600 forest fires have broken out in the country since July 13, most of them quickly extinguished.
But tens of thousands of residents and tourists, in the middle of the summer season in Greece, have had to be evacuated in recent days, including 20,000 to Rhodes, a very touristic island in the Dodecanese archipelago in the Aegean Sea.
A dangerous fire broke out on Wednesday near the industrial zone of the city of Volos (Center), killing two people. A disabled woman was found dead inside her burnt-out motorhome in a coastal area of ??Volos and a cattle farmer was killed trying to save his herd.
The industrial zone was closed on Thursday as a precaution. Temperatures are expected to drop on Thursday after a very strong and prolonged heat wave but gales, which are fanning the flames, could complicate firefighting efforts.
