Raging wildfires rip through Greece for 6 straight days, forcing thousands to flee as the blazes threaten entire towns and burn down homes, shops and vast areas of land in their path.
“This is a punishment,” the 53-year-old farmer from the suburban town of Kryoneri, just outside the Greek capital Athens, told NBC News. “This is man’s fault.”Sweaty and exhausted from a long night, Glakousakis had defied mandatory evacuation orders alongside about a dozen men to stay and protect their homes using olive branches, buckets of water and household fire extinguishers.
A local resident walks as a wildfire rages near the village of Gouves, on Euboea, the second largest Greek island.For the third straight day, thousands of people were evacuated from the large, forested Kryoneri’s chief volunteer firefighter told NBC News that they were “surrounded” by the flames, and struggled to keep up with containment efforts despite planes and helicopters circling to drop water on the blaze.
Authorities are investigating what caused the blazes, with three people arrested Friday in different areas on suspicion of starting blazes, according to the AP.Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday expressed his “deep sadness” for the firefighter’s death.
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