The phenomenon “Hot-Dry-Windy” Turkey is also facing the devastating fires in Izmir, the third most populous Turkish city. The phenomenon is caused by the combination of high temperatures combined with great drought, due to the absence of rainfall for a prolonged period and strong winds that reach seven to eight Beaufort. As it happened in Attica, the fire through the strong winds carries sparks hundreds of meters away creating new fire foci that get bigger and create a new big front

In the last few years it has not rained, there is a drought in the wider region, stressed the correspondent of SKAI in Istanbul, Manolis Kostidis.

In three fronts the battle with the flames in Smyrna continues since the previous night, and with the first light of the day, the aerial fire-fighting means started working again.

On his forehead Cordeliou the fire was burning the massif in the north of the district for the fourth day yesterday, Saturday. The current estimate was that the fire will be controlled and possibly extinguished, however, in the afternoon there was a rekindling in a ravine and the battle of the firefighting forces continues today.

The causes of the fire are attributed to three people who went on a picnic and lit a fire.

However the most alarming development in the area of ​​Smyrna is the new fire that started on Saturday night at Vourla, to the west of the city near the Fountain (Cesme). According to the first estimates, the fire was caused by a short circuit in an electricity cable and quickly spread, threatening a complex of 440 summer homes, whose residents were evacuated from their homes at night, 34 of them by sea by the Coast Guard. The fire is burning a bushy area.

At the same time, the fire has been raging in his area since yesterday Menderes, to the south of Smyrna

Active fire fronts are also still present in Aidinio, at Mugla and Magnesia in western Turkey, and the battle with the flames continues in Bolou, between Istanbul and Ankara, where a dense forest has been burning since Thursday in an area of ​​idyllic beauty with difficult areas. Four villages in the area have been evacuated as a precaution. The front in neighboring Safrafoli, also in northern Turkey, was brought under control yesterday.

In the three days from August 15 to 17, 19 fires broke out in Turkey and, according to Interior Minister Ali Gerlikaya, nine people were arrested in connection with the fires in Izmir and Bolu.