Non there is an active front since the fire in northeast Attica, the picture is better, but there are hundreds of foci that do not allow complacency, and 6 Beaufort combined with the dryness of the soil is not little, pointed out to SKAI Nikolas Lavranos, president of the Panhellenic Union of Firefighters, for the fire in northeastern Attica.

The fire has traveled a distance more than 30 km, leaving behind a huge ecological disaster, but also destroyed properties.

Live image from satellite shows that there is no big front

The picture is much better, a huge all-night battle was fought by the fire brigade and the pedestrians to put out the candles so that there would be no rekindling, so that there would be no active front as it happened at dawn in the Erythros position (in Nea Makri) he noted.

“We will be ready. Today we will try to limit the fire to the greatest extent possible” emphasized Mr. Lavranos.

The combination of “hot dry and windy” and the “spotting effect”

As he explained, the Barnabas fire had all the characteristics we didn’t want a fire to have. The combination of hot dry and windy not only found application in this forest fire, but it was highly aggressive, difficult to manage and unpredictable and created many problems mainly with the phenomenon of spotting, that is, due to the dryness of the ground, the fire through strong winds and strong gusts carried sparks hundreds of meters away creating new foci of fire that grew larger and created a new large front, making it difficult for the air forces to attempt to shoot accurately and also for the ground forces to be trapped inside a foci several times.

During the night messages were sent to the residents of Marathon to be ready and to the residents of Vrana settlement to be ready. However, the image of the fire front in Nea Makri has improved. Firefighters have been put on alert for any rekindling.

He was slightly injured firefighter, who operated in Penteli in the area of ​​the Observatory. He was taken to the Air Force General Hospital.

They are trying to extinguish the fire 702 firefighters with 27 forestry teams, 199 vehicles and volunteers with the assistance of all Civil Protection agencies, while with the first light of the day, 3 aircraft and 9 helicopters, one of which is coordinating, started to drop water.

Today, forces from France, Italy, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Romania are expected to arrive in our country for help through the European Civil Protection Mechanism.

Very high fire danger for today as well

According to the Fire Risk Prediction Map, issued by the General Secretariat of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate Crisis & Civil Protection, for today a very high risk of fire (risk category 4) is predicted for the following areas:

– Region of Attica

– Region of Central Greece (PE Boeotia, PE Evia)

For this reason, Fire Service personnel throughout the country remain on general alert and aerial surveillance patrols will continue, as well as patrols by fire, police and military forces.

At the same time, for the above areas, the plan of Civil Protection actions to deal with risks due to forest fires remains in place, according to which, among other things, the implementation of the measure of the preventive ban on vehicle traffic and the stay of excursionists in national forests is foreseen, forests and “vulnerable” areas.

A charred body of a woman was found in Patima Chalandrio

The charred body of a woman was found by firefighters inside a commercial building, in Patima Chalandriou. According to initial information, the woman he didn’t manage to get away in time from the burning business building, resulting in a gruesome death.

Her charred body was found in the bathroom of the business where she is believed to have tried to seek shelter when she realized the fire in the building was spreading.

Based on the information, it is for a 60-62 year old womana foreigner, who lived in Greece for many years and worked in the specific professional field. The fire department began searching as although she had not been officially declared missing, there was a report to the mayor that she was missing. Thus, the information was given by the municipal authority, which was initially not confirmed by the police and the fire department.

However, a newer informal update from the Ministry of Civil Protection confirmed the tragic news, as the fire brigade found the body during the autopsy they carried out in the building. It is likely that the woman was trapped, when earlier the front of the fire had surrounded the area and she was unable to escape.

According to his information Michalis Tezaristhe body was found in a flower arrangement business on Anapausesos and Stratonikis streets in Patima Chalandriou. The SKAI journalist was at the place where the woman was found – which he had visited early in the afternoon as part of the report – where the building has been completely destroyed with its roof collapsed. In all probability the thermal load collapsed the metal roof, as a result of which the woman was trapped and lost her life.