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A firefighting helicopter drops water during a wildfire in Krio Pigadi, Greece, Saturday. (Reuters-Yonhap) <\/p>\n A firefighting helicopter drops water during a wildfire in Krio Pigadi, Greece, Saturday. (Reuters-Yonhap) <\/p>\n
Wildfires fanned by gale-force winds \u200cburned across multiple areas of Greece Saturday, forcing residents to flee as conditions worsened again in parts of Spain and France.<\/p>\n
In one escalating Greek blaze, firefighters, police and ambulances slowly withdrew before a huge wall of fire and smoke engulfing forests and shrub near Porto Germeno on the Gulf \u200cof Corinth 60 kilometers northwest of Athens.<\/p>\n
“The situation is extremely hard, especially today. We have really strong winds, gusts exceeding 73 kilometers per hour. The direction of the fire can’t be determined easily,” doctor and first responder Giorgos Doulas said.<\/p>\n
Europe has been ravaged by wildfires this summer after a period of successive record-breaking heatwaves and little rain, in conditions \u2060that scientists say have been exacerbated by climate change.<\/p>\n
Several have broken out in Greece in recent days after a period of relative calm there.<\/p>\n
Northwest of Athens, authorities told people from the towns of Agia Paraskevi, Kryo Pigadi and Agios Nektarios to evacuate.<\/p>\n
Helicopters dropped water and fire retardants to try to \u2060stop the spread.<\/p>\n
“Every summer … we worry whether we will catch fire or not,” 65-year-old Ilias Papadimitropoulos from Kryo Pigadi saud. “We live and breathe with this anxiety … From what I see, things are very difficult.\u201d Earlier, more than 200 people from the town of Agios Vasileios had to \u200bbe evacuated by sea.<\/p>\n
Authorities warned of extreme wildfire risk across the regions of Boeotia, Attica and Evia for Sunday.<\/p>\n
In France, a fire in the mountainous southeastern Var department, which had been brought under control three days ago, flared up again on \u200cFriday, forcing authorities to evacuate nearly \u200c2,500 people overnight.<\/p>\n
Local prefect Simon Babre told BFM TV Saturday the fire had burned through 1,800 hectares \u200cbefore stabilising again.<\/p>\n
In the community of Montfort-sur-Argens in Var, farmers were helping \u200bfill firefighting trucks and helicopters with water.<\/p>\n
“We’re still optimistic despite this terrible year. … We’ve always bounced back. We’ve known about fires in the Mediterranean region,” winemaker Frederic Ambard \u2060said. “Things will slowly rebuild.”<\/p>\n
Spain battled several wildfire hot spots on Saturday, two days after the government declared the end of a national emergency caused by huge fires in the country’s central provinces.<\/p>\n
Conditions worsened in the northern province of Leon, where a new blaze broke out overnight, another remained active, and a third was evolving favourably, according \u2060to authorities.<\/p>\n
In neighboring \u200bZamora province, a fire that ravaged about 11,000 hectares \u2060improved enough for 14 evacuated towns to reopen and restrictions to be lifted.<\/p>\n
In the eastern province of Castellon, the Vall d’Uixo fire was stabilised on its seventh day after \u200bburning nearly 10,000 hectares, allowing all evacuated residents to return. Police said they suspected arson after finding two separate ignition points.<\/p>\n
Major fires in the central regions of Madrid and Avila, which burned more than 70,000 hectares, were stabilised. A new outbreak near the San Juan reservoir, west of \u2060the capital, was extinguished on Friday.<\/p>\n
The toll of extreme weather has extended well \u2060beyond the widespread devastation \u2060caused by fires.<\/p>\n
In \u200cAustria, the country’s Agency for Health and Food Safety reported a record 395 heat-related deaths for the month of June.<\/p>\n
Earlier last week, Britain said an estimated 2,877 people had died from heat-related causes so far this year, while France reported 5,764 excess deaths in the country between June 17 and July 2, and Germany’s \u200bRKI health body estimated 9,800 people had died so far this year linked to the high temperatures. (Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A firefighting helicopter drops water during a wildfire in Krio Pigadi, Greece, Saturday. (Reuters-Yonhap) Wildfires fanned by gale-force…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55060,5370,3834,195,1328,23336],"class_list":["post-106737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-athens","tag-france","tag-greece","tag-k-pop","tag-spain","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}