Greek Firefighters Make Progress Against Wildfires

Greek firefighters beat back wildfires

Greek firefighters gained ground Thursday against a wildfire outside the third-largest city of Patras, while planes bombed water on blazes on three other fronts.

Wildfires Descend on Major Greek City

As wildfires driven by scorching winds and relentless heat creep toward the heart of Patras, Greece's third-largest city, a wave of evacuations and devastation sweeps across southern Europe, highlighting the mounting toll of an unforgiving heatwave, the BBC reports. Fanned by high winds and temperatures nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit, flames...

Fires in Kefalonia: Tourists sent emergency alerts as fire blazes in Atheras and 'smoke visible everywhere'

Tourists in the Greek holiday hotspot Kefalonia were sent emergency alerts amid raging wildfires.

Greek firefighters make progress against wildfires

Farm animals and pets rushed to safety as Greek wildfire plagues port city

Farm animals and pets have been rushed to safety as wildfires ravaged the Greek port city of Patras. As wildfires rage through olive groves and pine forests outside Greece's third-largest city of Patras on Wednesday (13 August), a farmer can be seen navigating smoke-filled roads on his motorbike, carrying a sheep to safety. As another man fled advancing fire lines, he ran with his goats. Elsewhere, residents were evacuated from their homes carry…

Flames threaten major Greek city, while many countries fight fires

In Greece, firefights were up against multiple wildfires across the country on Wednesday, August 13th. Reuters posted shocking videos of the flames already devouring properties in villages and towns near the western city of Patras and on two tourist islands. “Fires have burned houses, farms and factories and prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents and tourists since Tuesday… Source