Greece fires

On Thursday, the Prime Minister of Greece revealed plans to deploy drones and forest temperature sensors to detect wildfires in their early stages. The announcement came amid an ongoing crisis that has seen vast swaths of the country engulfed in...

Fires were burning through Saturday night on Andros island and fronts are still active for a 9th day in the Evros area, northeastern Greece.

More areas of Magnesia, Thessaly, Central Greece, were being evacuated on Thursday afternoon under the threat of approaching fire, and while explosions were heard from an ammunition depot at the Nea Anchialos Air Force Base near the city of...

Last week's massive wildfire that started in densely-forested Mount Penteli just outside of Athens burned over 2,750 hectares or about 6,800 acres. New damage totals are in from the blaze, which took hundreds of firefighters two days to contain and...

This year has already been a damaging one for wildfires in Greece with the most recent example being the large blaze on Mount Penteli in Athens' northern suburbs that ignited on July 19th. In the first few months of 2022,...

The catastrophic 2021 fires in Greece burned an area almost twice the size of New York City, according to a report by the Meteo services of the National Observatory of Athens, released on Tuesday. According to the report, 84 forest...

Following August's catastrophic fires in Greece, scientists are warning of floods in the affected areas that could bring more devastation if a "medicane" hits. A medicane is a tropical-like cyclone originating in the Mediterranean. The weather phenomenon devasted parts of...

Greece offered on Friday “holiday vouchers” to hundreds of firefighters from foreign countries that responded to the call for assistance. The move is a gesture of gratitude to the hundreds of foreign firefighters from 11 EU countries and 12 non-EU...

Hundreds of firefighters continued their efforts to put out scattered fires that burn in Arcadia and in Eastern Mani, southern Peloponnese.

Greece's PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke at a press conference about the impact that climate change has had on the country's wildfires.