Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said 355 wildfires had erupted since Friday, including 209 in the last 48 hours.
The fire brigade warned that more fires could break out, and spokesman Ioannis Artopios said conditions remained “difficult, and in several cases extreme.”
Police ordered other residents to leave as a fire-fighting helicopter clattered overhead, dropping water on the flames. About 700 migrants held at the nearby facility of Amygdaleza were evacuated to another camp, a migration ministry official said. A man carries a Saint Mary with Jesus icon to save it from a wildfire at Agia Paraskevi Christian Orthodox monastery in Acharnes.REUTERSIn the northern region of Evros bordering Turkey, a fire burned for a fifth day. on Tuesday, believed to be migrants, in an area near Dadia forest, a common route for people from the Middle East and Asia trying to enter the European Union.
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