Greece: Fires Destroy 60,000 Acres In 4 Days
Some 60,000 acres have been destroyed by the fires ravaging Greece for the period 1-4 August 2021 according to the recent data by the National Observatory of Athens, adding that this damage is 50% more than is usually burned in an entire firefighting season. According to BEYOND center of the National Observatory of Athens (EAA), the initial calculation of the burned areas of the fires in Rhodes (1/8/2021), Attica (3/8/2021), Evia (3/8/2021) and in Eastern Mani (3/8/2021) amounts to about 6,000 hectares (60,000 acres). In 2020 the total burned area was 10,376 hectares, while in 2019 9,405 ...
Source: greekcitytimes.com