
People Evacuated as New Wildfire Hits Greek Island
Voice of America
ATHENS, GREECE - Scores of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft battled a forest fire that broke out early Monday on the southern part of Greece's Evia island, less than two weeks after an inferno decimated its northern part.
The fire was burning near the village of Fygia where two neighborhoods have been evacuated and was moving toward the coastal tourist village of Marmari, where authorities were preparing boats to evacuate people if needed, according to Athens News Agency. Forty-six firefighters were battling flames fanned by high winds -- assisted by 20 fire engines, three water-dropping airplanes and two helicopters, the Greek fire brigade said. Authorities have boats on standby off Marmari. Evia is northeast of the capital Athens.
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