Wild Fires in Greece

[ski ww]

How are all the wild fires effecting travel in Greece? Watching the news the last couple of days they are having to evacuate suburbs of Athens because of the fires. After covid they do not need this. 

[puppycanducruise]

Those fires look terrible.  Prayers for everyone in the affected area.

[irvington]

Yes, it sounds terrible. We have real forest fire problems where I live too.

 

Of course, this is more a tragedy for the people affected, but I do wonder if travel will be impacted.

[Langoustine]

A suburb of Athens is now on fire, and extreme heat has forced the closing of the Acropolis during the hottest part of the day. https://news.yahoo.com/greece-wildfires-residents-evacuated-acropolis-095950676.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

Edited August 9, 2021 by Langoustine

[marazul]

45 minutes ago, Langoustine said:

A suburb of Athens is now on fire, and extreme heat has forced the closing of the Acropolis during the hottest part of the day. https://news.yahoo.com/greece-wildfires-residents-evacuated-acropolis-095950676.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

Langoustine -

that report is 5 days old.  Here are some current ones:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58141336

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/wildfires-rage-greece-italy-eu-mounts-firefighting-operation-evacuations-destruction-southern-europe

https://www.ekathimerini.com/

It's all pretty bad, but the weather is beginning to break some.  It is now in the 90s instead of 100s. 

[GlobalMethod]

18 hours ago, marazul said:

Langoustine -

that report is 5 days old.  Here are some current ones:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58141336

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/wildfires-rage-greece-italy-eu-mounts-firefighting-operation-evacuations-destruction-southern-europe

https://www.ekathimerini.com/

It's all pretty bad, but the weather is beginning to break some.  It is now in the 90s instead of 100s. 

Yours is the most accurate information on this topic ... horrendous fires are in many parts of Greece ... we live in Athens city center and the haze and smoky smell from a couple of days ago is nearly eliminated ... there is no 'wildfire' in our urban area ... Athens is a large area and the outskirts may have issues but the condition is better now in Central Athens ... a lot of reporting I see says "near Athens" probably to get peoples attention.

[marazul]

1 hour ago, GlobalMethod said:

Yours is the most accurate information on this topic ... horrendous fires are in many parts of Greece ... we live in Athens city center and the haze and smoky smell from a couple of days ago is nearly eliminated ... there is no 'wildfire' in our urban area ... Athens is a large area and the outskirts may have issues but the condition is better now in Central Athens ... a lot of reporting I see says "near Athens" probably to get peoples attention.

Thanks for your Athens report. It's best to hear from residents rather than relying on the media.  

Hopefully the horror in Evia will be over soon with all the additional help from other countries.  

[ski ww]

Glad to hear that things are improving.