sent this update from rhodes. there is relief here that the temperatures are a little lower than they were over the last few days. as you can probably see, the wind is up this morning and that is something thatis this morning and that is something that is causing concern to firefighters, because if you can imagine all of the smouldering embers which are still around because of the fires that have been raging over the past few days. there is the danger that sparks can be blown through the wind and set up new fires, and in fact, we ve been told there are high alerts for fires in several regions of greece today, rent article, around athens, in crete, in the peloponnese, amongst others. around after car. an incident yesterday were a fire approached an ammunition depot belonging to the greek air force and
there is a relief here that the temperatures are a little bit lower than they were over the last few days but as you can probably see, the wind is up this morning and that s something that is causing concern to firefighters because if you can imagine, all of the smouldering embers which are still around because of the fires that have been raging over the past few days, there is the danger that sparks can be blown through the wind and set up a new fires and in fact, we have been told that there are high alerts for fires in several regions of greece today, around attica, athens, crete, the peloponnese among others and there was an incident yesterday evening where a fire approached an ammunition depot belonging to the greek air force and air to evacuate
in other news, there is a funeral today for one of the two pilots who was killed earlier this week when their plane crashed on the president of greece is going to be at that funeral. here people very much concerned that new fires could break out, several areas of greece on high alert, including attica, round athens, the peloponnese and the island of crete. island of crete. there has been discussions island of crete. there has been discussions via island of crete. there has been discussions via the island of crete. there has been discussions via the greek - island of crete. there has been | discussions via the greek prime minister, bringing up the issue of climate change and they need to spend more time preparing to mitigate the effects of climate change. what do you think the government is planning to do? well. government is planning to do? well, we are hearing. government is planning to do? well, we are hearing, going government is planning to do? well, we are hearing, goin
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the peloponnese are on high alert forfires the peloponnese are on high alert for fires today. the greek prime minister has said this country really has to improve its firefighting and fire protection measures and also step up its fight against climate change. yesterday evening there were explosions in one area and the greek mainland where, near an ammunition depot belonging to the air force. they had to evacuate that area. fortunately no one was injured there. this has really been a very, very difficult period for people in greece. yesterday, one funeral was held for a firefighting pilot, who died earlier this week on the island of abia and anotherfuneral earlier this week on the island of abia and another funeral of a second pilot will be held today. island of evia.