Starting today, the money for the first “Relief” for the July fires will start coming in, the Director of the ND Press Office, Nikos Romanos, said in his statements.

Speaking on SKAI TV referred to the fires by saying that “we have unprecedented conditions, that is why we are doing more and more. We strengthened the Fire Department, manpower, increased air assets, strengthened volunteers and their training».

At the beginning of his deployment, Mr. Romanos thanked all those who are working on the front lines saying: “What we must always start from, and I consider it imperative and I feel it as a need of mine, is to thank all the people, the volunteers, the firefighters, the policemen, the Civil Protection people, the Armed Forces, who give this the unprecedented battle in unprecedented conditions”.

He clarified referring to the unprecedented conditions: “It is the first year that we have 7 times in the fire protection season up to now danger level 5. Since these figures are measured and this indicator exists, on average, 2 days in the fire protection season we have had such danger levels. This year we had 7 days. The second worst time was the 4 times we had danger level 5 in the summer of 2021, with the fires in Evia, Varybompi, etc..

The Director of the ND Press Office regarding the simultaneous fronts and the arrests noted that: “We already have arrests, 140 arrests in the last 1.5 months alone for fires, 240 arrests since the beginning of the year. Only yesterday we saw in Avlonas, essentially, 9 fires at the same time within 4 hours, in an imaginary straight line from the front that was already burning, on the other side of Parnitha, while we had a similar situation in Evros, with dozens of simultaneous fronts there. The investigation of the Fire Department, the EYP, the Police and the Justice are doing their job».

In closing, Mr. Romanos said: “In all fields we do everything we can, as well as in prevention. Again with a specific example, in Evros we have 6 million implemented prevention projects, fire protection, etc. And yet even that was not enough. Another issue raised is creative proposals not being implemented. Lie. Most of what was contained in the Goldamer opinion has been adopted. 112 is in that direction. The Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection is in this direction. The Aegis program currently being implemented is in this direction. From the point that more needs to be done on the basis of a constant re-engineering, to the oppositional instrumentalization of such issues by saying that nothing has been done and there is no state, there is a long distance».