Fire smoke over Athens after wildfires – residents urged to stay home

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Several villages were evacuated as a result of the forest fires.

Flames high in the woods on Mount Parnithas, north of the Greek capital Athens. Now the smoke from the fire has found its way into the city and has urged people to close windows and stay indoors.

Wildfires are burning freely in many countries around the world. News 24 I already talked about Swedish tourists in both Turkey And GreeceWhere forest fires are worrying.

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More than 500 firefighters are now working to put out the flames on Mount Parnithas, just outside Athens, before reaching the city’s most densely populated areas. So we urge all residents to close windows and stay indoors.

40°C

But the fires in Parnithas are not the only fires Greece is working to put out. 300 km south of the capital, several fires are raging and temperatures approach 40 degrees Celsius.

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Roads connecting the northern and southern parts of Athens were closed and entire villages evacuated. Homes destroyed in fires in the capital’s suburb of Faribubi, according to reports Aftonbladet.

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