The situation remains difficult, we are not complacentemphasized the press representative of the Fire Department, John Baker in today’s emergency update on the fire fronts of the last days.

Mr. Artophios said: “All the Civil Protection forces in cooperation with the Regions and Municipalities of the country are making significant efforts for the containment of fires.

The fire that occurred yesterday at Lefkohoma Laconia remains in recession, but strong firefighting forces continue to operate there.

In the forest fire that occurred on Tuesday in Rose strong ground forces are operating and although yesterday aerial vehicles had difficulty approaching the outbreaks due to the low visibility they created the intense fumes managed to contain several flare-ups.

Today in Rhodes from the first light of day have been made available 5 airplanes and 5 helicopters.

In the fire that has developed into Western Attica and started on Monday from Dervenochoria, strong ground forces continue to operate and from the air with the first light of day 7 aircraft, 9 helicopters of which one for their air coordination have been made available.

The aircraft they operate include four aircraft made available to us by the European Civil Protection Mechanism from Italy and France.

Additional powers made available to us by the European Civil Protection Mechanism have arrived in our country from Romania with 50 firefighters with 10 vehicles tomorrow forces are expected from Slovakia which will provide 31 firefighters with 15 vehicles and from Poland which will have 149 firefighters with 49 vehicles.

also two more aircraft were expected to arrive today from Israel. We remind you that for today, Thursday, a very high risk of fire is expected in Attica, Boeotia, Evia, Corinth and Argolis.”

We are not complacentattention is a must, emphasized Mr. Artophios, closing the briefing.