The fire emergency is moving in Europe from the western to the eastern part of the continent. While in France and Spain the damage from the catastrophic fires around Bordeaux and Madrid is being counted, and scattered emergencies remain, including in Portugal, now the focus is on Greece.
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More than 7,000 people have been evacuated on the Greek island of Crete due to the fires, according to the deputy governor of the Rethymno region, Maria Lioni. “We evacuated Agia Galini, a very large town with about seven to eight thousand inhabitants,” Lioni said in an interview with the broadcaster Ert. Lioni added that several villages were also evacuated. Furthermore, in the areas of Agios Pavlos, Ligres, and Triopetra, traditionally very popular tourist destinations, authorities had to evacuate people by sea because road access was impassable for buses. According to the deputy governor, Crete experienced “a day and night from hell.” The fire caused significant damage that cannot yet be fully assessed because the flames are still ongoing. Yesterday, two firefighters died on the island while trying to control the fires.
The situation in France
In France, the emergency peak has been surpassed, but the alarm has not been lifted. “Yesterday we recorded 26 fires, which broke out very quickly and with great intensity.” This was stated by the French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, as reported by the broadcaster Bfmtv. “The situation remains complicated,” added the police chief, announcing that “the burned area amounts to 117,000 hectares” throughout France.
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The fire that had affected the territory of Brignoles, in the Var department in southern France, was extinguished during the night between Wednesday and Thursday. Among the more than 220,000 evacuated due to the fires in France are also George and Amal Clooney. The 64- and 48-year-old couple, together with their 9-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, had to leave their residence in Brignoles, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur department, one of the regions affected by the flames.
Spain lifts the state of emergency
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the end of the national state of emergency due to the fires that affected the province of Avila and the region of Madrid, given the improvement of the situation. The socialist leader, speaking from the Advanced Command Post in Navaluenga, in the province of Avila, stated that the response to the fires, led by the central state and particularly by the Military Emergency Unit, was a “success,” and involved “more than 150 hours of tireless work by all operational units that fought on the front lines against the fire.” Sanchez warned that the emergency, which has been lowered to level two and will now be managed by the regional authorities of Castile and Leon, still continues and that authorities will maintain maximum vigilance.
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