Chios, the hardest-hit region in Greece’s current wildfires, is enduring its second major blaze this summer, after a June outbreak scorched more than 4,000 hectares. The latest fire, which erupted Wednesday, affecting the island’s northwest, has burned a similar amount of territory.
Wildfires were burning out of control in several parts of Greece early Wednesday, with the worst fronts in the northwestern Peloponnese, western Attica, northwestern Greece, and on the islands of Chios and Zakynthos, forcing thousands to evacuate and triggering road closures, power cuts and emergency rescues.
“Can we cope with another crisis?” an exasperated senior government official was heard saying last week, as an emergency meeting was held at the office of the prime minister, this time on the appearance of over 840 refugees on the shores of the islands of Crete and Gavdos.
Residents in the village of Thymari, near the coastal town of Palaia Fokaia, southeast of Athens, are accessing the damage caused by Thursday’s wildfire that engulfed homes, yards and nearby forested areas.
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As temperatures started rising on Wednesday, signalling the start of what meteorologists are describing as a short but intense heatwave, the City of Athens opened up cool spaces to help vulnerable residents and visitors cope with its effects.
Greece is creating its own artificial intelligence supercomputer, Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou said on Friday, addressing the “Artificial Intelligence as an Accelerator of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector and Businesses” conference.
In less than 24 hours, 731 migrants, including many families and children, arrived on Crete and Gavdos. “The shelter in Agia had just emptied of those who arrived on June 5, and now it’s full again,” said Eleni Zervoudaki, Hania’s deputy mayor for social policy.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday he would like Greece to join Europe’s nuclear energy club, marking a dramatic shift for a nation with no nuclear power history.
Two wildfires broke out on Monday in northeastern Attica, near the Greek capital, prompting a major firefighting response, authorities said.
