Greece: Firefighters contain wildfire at resort near Athens

ATHENS, Greece — Firefighters successful Greece person contained a wildfire that threatened homes and prompted overnight evacuations astatine a edifice municipality northeast of Athens, the country’s occurrence work said Tuesday.

More than 150 firefighters and volunteers battled done the night, utilizing hoses and excavators to halt the occurrence extracurricular Nea Makri, 30 kilometers (18 miles) northeast of the Greek capital. At archetypal light, 2 water-dropping planes and 1 chopper joined the effort.

Local officials said respective homes had been damaged but nary injuries were reported.

Later Tuesday, different blaze broke retired successful a wood adjacent the municipality of Megalopolis successful the confederate Peloponnese region, the Hellenic Fire Service said. More than 80 firefighters, assisted by 8 water-dropping aircraft, worked to extinguish the fire.

Officials said a full 41 wildfires broke retired astir the state betwixt Monday evening and Tuesday evening. Most were enactment retired swiftly.

Major wildfires burned much than 1,000 quadrate kilometers (390 quadrate miles) this summertime connected the land of Evia and different parts of cardinal and confederate Greece arsenic the state suffered its worst vigor question successful decades. Greek authorities person blamed clime alteration for utmost upwind conditions.