The deputy governor of Evros sounded the alarm for the fire that is burning in Evros for the 8th consecutive day Dimitris Petrovich.

In his statements on the state channel, Mr. Petrovic stressed that on Monday the air conditions will change and the situation will become even more dangerous and he asked for the reinforcement of the media.

“Now the fire is united. It is a “very difficult situation”, which has caused untold destruction. Unfortunately, we see that the Nanny front cannot be contained, cannot be brought under control. And this worries us more. Yesterday we had an alarm at Avra, Sycorrachis, in Aisymi the winds changed and we had a threat, but the important thing is that the fire in Dadia cannot be contained. We are talking about more than 750,000 acres in the forest complex of Soufli and Alexandroupoli. Imagine this forest complex is 1,600,000 hectares and this fire is the biggest fire in Europe at the moment.”

“We made another appeal for the reinforcement of the means, because from Monday the winds are changing, so the threat is growing and then we do not know how and if it will be possible to stop the advance of the fire front. All this worries us,” he said.

Asked why the fire cannot be extinguished, he explained that we are talking about a large single front from the Dadia forest to the fire that broke out north of Alexandroupolis while he noted that the forest had not been cleared. “The forest of Dadia is virgin. You saw in the first days that the fire of Dadia descended with great speed. In two hours he arrived north of Alexandroupoli. We are talking about 7-8 Beaufort winds in the microclimate created by the fire. It gained very high speed, passing and burning everything. Our assessment is that at some point we will have to approach the issue differently. First, because this forest had not, had never been cleared in the logic of the virgin forest. It should have a different management. It is a huge forest with great biodiversity. But, it had not been cleaned.”

Extraordinary meeting under Kikilia

An information meeting of the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Vass Kikilia, on the situation of the fire fronts in the Evros, is taking place at this time, in Alexandroupoli, in a hall of the Dimokritos airport, where the minister arrived earlier.

The meeting is attended by the Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food, Member of Parliament for Evros, St. Keletsis, the regional governor of An. Macedonia and Thrace Chr. Metsios, the deputy regional governor D. Petrovich, the mayor of Soufliou Pan. Kalakikos as well as representative of the municipality of Alexandroupoli

After the meeting, as it became known, the minister will fly to the areas affected by the fires in Evros, with a super puma.

According to the Fire Department, the main front of the Evros fire is located in the area of ​​Leptokarya, while flare-ups occurred during the night in Dadia. Strong ground firefighting forces, along with volunteer firefighters and Armed Forces forces, are participating in the operations in Evros, while 4 aircraft and 3 helicopters started dropping water from the first light of day.