Papagianneika and Zahouli were evacuated earlier – Strong ground forces are operating at the site – The front broke in Louba – Residents were freed
All night is the battle that the fire brigades are fighting in the fire that broke out at noon on Wednesday in an agroforestry area in Veniza Megaron. Now the situation is much better and according to information the front of the fire has broken, mainly in Luba, it is not nine and there are individual outbreaks that they want to deal with in order to control the fire.
At least 2 houses were engulfed in flames from the fire that took a large dimension as recorded by his camera SKAI. In fact, in one of them an elderly woman calling for help had to be removed by the police forces according to a resident’s testimony.
The forces of the Fire Department were reinforced. Now 105 firefighters with 3 groups of pedestrians and 38 vehicles are operating, while earlier they also operated 7 aircraft and 6 helicopters, one of which was for aerial coordination. At the same time, volunteer firefighters and local water bodies are providing assistance, while citizens tried to help the firemen’s work with tires and dry branches.
Earlier, police forces had cordoned off the area and were searching the houses door-to-door in order to evacuate the residents. At the same time, an EKAV ambulance was on standby in the area for precautionary reasons.
112 message for the precautionary evacuation of the settlement of Papagianneika Megaron and the settlement of Zachouli
The fire broke out at 13.41 in the afternoon and shortly after 14.00 a message was sent via 112 to the residents of the Zahouli settlement to move away from the area as a precaution and head towards Alepochori and shortly after 17.00 a message via 112 was also sent to the residents who are in the settlement of Papagianneika Megaron for preventive removal from the area.
“There are scattered houses in the area and in the ravine that was mainly the area of ​​the fire,” said the Mayor of Megaron, Grigoris Stamoulis.
“We have reports of damage to the houses in the Zahouli settlement,” he said in SKAI, the Deputy Regional Governor of Western Attica, Lefteris Kosmopoulos.
He added that so far there are no reports of trapped people, while he emphasized that the fire is very difficult as the wind makes extinguishing difficult. At the same time, he pointed out that the whole area is virgin forest.
The shocking moment when the flames flare up and surround the SKAI workshop
The TV crew of SKAI, the journalist Miltos Sakellaris and the cameraman Nikos Basisoglou, are trapped in the flames. The place where they were within a few minutes is given over to the flames.
Journalist:
Look!
We have to get it, Niko!
Niko, Niko, let’s get in the car.
Nikos, get in the car.
Get in quick!!
Let’s go further down!!
A few meters further on, the fire flares up in a fraction of a second and the sparks fall on SKAI journalist Michalis Tezaris and cameraman Yiannis Asimakopoulos.
Journalist:
I burned, I burned
We are burning here, John
In the end, everything went well and the journalists and the crew safely left the scene.
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