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Firefighters Race to Contain Wildfires in Greece as Thousands Evacuated, 2 Die in Turkey
- Firefighters battled multiple wildfires on July 3, 2025, near Athens and on Crete, Greece, forcing thousands to evacuate holiday resorts.
- These wildfires broke out amid increasing heat, drought, and strong winds that also fueled hundreds of fires across Turkey in the past week.
- Authorities evacuated more than 5,000 tourists, hotel workers, and residents along Crete’s southern coast and relocated displaced tourists to hotels or an indoor stadium.
- An 81-year-old man succumbed to smoke inhalation in the vicinity of Odemis, becoming the first casualty in the ongoing wildfires across the region, while approximately 200 homes sustained damage or were destroyed.
- Turkey’s parliament adopted a climate law late Wednesday setting a net-zero emissions target for 2053 and establishing a carbon market board amid rising climate vulnerabilities.
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Deadly wildfires force mass evacuations in Greece and Turkiye
ATHENS: Officials on the southern Greek island of Crete evacuated thousands of people from wildfires, while two people died in neighbouring Turkiye as fires took hold in the western province of Izmir on Thursday. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
Athens, Greece. Greek firefighters try to control a fire this Thursday in the southeast of the island of Crete, which forced to evacuate some 5,000 people, especially visitors, while in Turkey, several fires advance in the tourist province of Smirna, where there were two deceased. In Crete, one of the main destinations of travelers in Greece, the fire was declared on Wednesday. “Preventive evacuations of about 3,000 tourists and 2,000 inhabitant…
Due to the heat and drought of the past few days, wildfires have broken out in several places in Europe.
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