The fires continue to ravage Greece. The authorities of Athens, where the air is now made unbreathable by the thick smoke of the fires in the urban wooded areas in the north of the capital, have asked the population to “close all the windows and not leave the house”. This is the invitation addressed by the provoked. “If we fail to contain the fires today, we will have a huge problem,” said Wassilis Kokkalis, deputy governor of the Athens region, interviewed on television today. The wind, which in recent days has pushed and spread the flames, dropped tonight, creating “a window of opportunity” to take control of the fires, explained the deputy governor. Kokkalis also reported that three suspected arsonists have been arrested. Fires are raging in other areas of the country, near Olympia and Sparta in the Peloponnese, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. Ukraine, Romania and Cyprus sent fire brigade teams, while planes and helicopters flew from France, Switzerland, Sweden and Croatia. “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 the fire brigade,” asked Fanis Spanos, governor of the region. central 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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