in a remote village. several communities have already been evacuated including two hospitals full of patients. emergency officials say more than 21,000 acres have been burned since monday. cnn s elainy giakas has been in all day. what are you seeing? root now what i m seeing is what should be beautiful lands of athens, what should be greenery and instead we re seeing dystopia, a burned forest. the wildfires, kate, have ravaged an important carbon basin for the city of athens. we are in the outskirts of athens. you can see homes that were burned and we witnessed so many homes burned to the ground. many residents defiant, not wanting to leave their livelihoods and their homes and a lot of volunteers and we can see some of them here that are trying to put out what is remaining of the fire to try and