Greece Wildfires

• Greece grappling with ‘extremely dangerous’ wildfires. What to know

  A spokesperson for Global Affairs told Global News that Canadians should take 'normal security precautions in Greece' amid the wildfires.

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  Aug 12, 2024
  
• Migrants believed dead in Greece wildfires that forced evacuations

  Another major blaze has been burning across Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands for a week, although no injuries or damage to homes was reported.

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  Aug 22, 2023
  
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• Greek wildfires begin to die down after burning for nearly 2 weeks

  The blazes, fanned by rising temperatures and strong winds, have killed five people, destroyed homes, farms and factories and scorched swathes of forest land since July 17.

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  Jul 28, 2023
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• Dozens killed as wildfires, heat wave sweep through the Mediterranean

  Without human-induced climate change, the events this month would have been 'extremely rare,' according to a study by World Weather Attribution.

  World

  Jul 26, 2023
• Greece wildfires: 2 dead after Canadair plane fighting blazes crashes

  State broadcaster ERT showed footage of the plane dropping water over a fire and then crashing into a hillside and bursting into flames.

  World

  Jul 25, 2023
• Greece wildfires rage amid high heat as EU pledges more assistance

  Water-dropping airplanes and helicopters flew low through a blanket of smoke tinted orange by the sunset to try and contain two wildfires to the west of Athens before nightfall.

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  Jul 18, 2023
• Greece battles 4 major wildfires across the country, over 450 people evacuated

  Greece's fire service was fighting four major fires across the country Saturday, including one where they had to evacuate over 450 people at an island holiday resort.

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  Jul 23, 2022
• Wildfires continue to ravage France, Spain as temperature related deaths soar

  In Spain, firefighters supported by the armed forces' emergency brigades are trying to stamp out over 30 fires consuming forests spread across the country.

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  Jul 17, 2022
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• Thousands flee as fire devours forests, homes on Greece’s second largest island

  Greek and European officials have blamed climate change for the large number of fires in southern Europe this summer, from Italy to the Balkans, Greece and Turkey.

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  Aug 8, 2021
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• Arson suspected as cause of wildfire that killed at least 82 in Greece: officials

  Frantic relatives headed to the Athens morgue Thursday to seek the fate of loved ones still missing after Greece's deadliest forest fire in decades, a blaze that Greek authorities said they increasingly suspect resulted from arson.

  Jul 26, 2018