Δευτέρα 23 Ιουλίου 2018

Wildfires struck Attika Greece. Destroyed houses and lifes lost.

Holiday time is at its peak in Greece.
Many people are about to to make their vacations in the financial problem country of Greece.
Rafina is one of the main ports of Greece, after Piraeus (the biggest port of Greece),
that connects the mainland (Attika province on the East) with the more than a dozen nearby inhabitant islands.

After noon time on the 23rd of July 2018, a thick cloud covers the port and its holidaymakers, waiting in their cars.
at the same time at the West side of the Province of Attika, another wildfire breaks out in the area of Kineta, blocking for hours the main highway connecting Athens with the rest main land of Peloponese,

then another following at Mount Penteli in the Northeast, together with the ther 2 at the East at Mati and New Voutsas.
Summer Camps, like the one of the Greek Evangelical Church called "Kalamos" that burnt down last year, began to think about evacuating its children, running out of electricity.
Dozen cars, destroyed, people reported to have been burnt and whole neighborhood left behind in ashes.
The moring will show the results.


Pictures: FB, Yannis Gardelis Jr.

N.S. 24/7/2018