The fire started creeping through dried leaves, but now it has spread through the forest, having also crossed into Bulgaria.
A Volunteer of the Greek Rhodope Rescue Team saw the joy with his own eyes when, during the operation to extinguish the fire that has been burning for the 13th consecutive day on Mount Papikio, two trees crushed the vehicle he was driving, causing serious material damage.
“Fortunately, our volunteer has nothing serious. A blow to the hand, which came from his attempt to leave the car. In his haste to move away, he fell and hit himself,” Lefteris Tsolakis, a member of the Hellenic Rhodope Rescue Team, notes about the incident in GRTimes.
The car, however, suffered major damages, which, however, as Mr. Tsolakis said, “these things are fixed. The important thing is that the volunteer was not in danger.”
A rain will save the day
In the meantime, referring to the operations that are being carried out these days in consultation with the Fire Service to extinguish the fire on Mount Papikio, Lefteris Tsolakis said that “unfortunately, the altitude is high and water up there does not rise by terrestrial means. Our only hope is the air and the rain, which we have been waiting for for several days to save the situation, but it is not coming,” he emphasizes.
He adds that “the fire started creeping through dried leaves, but now it has spread to the forest and as far as we know it has also passed to Bulgaria. Settlements are not in danger, but the fire has spread enough and there is a risk of burning a dense forest that is an environmental lung”.
SOURCE: GRTIMES
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