{"id":2013563,"date":"2023-08-27T13:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-firefighters-aircraft-struggle-to-contain-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:13:50","slug":"hundreds-of-firefighters-aircraft-struggle-to-contain-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-firefighters-aircraft-struggle-to-contain-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters and aircraft battle to control wildfires."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhundreds-of-firefighters-aircraft-struggle-to-contain-wildfires%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Hundreds of Firefighters,\u200b Aircraft Struggle to Contain Wildfires<\/h2>\n<p>More\u200c than 600\u2064 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries and backed by a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters, are currently battling the remnants of three major wildfires in Greece. These wildfires have been raging for days, posing a significant challenge to firefighting efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Greece has been \u200cplagued\u200d by daily\u2062 outbreaks of dozens of fires over the past week, fueled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-fires-that-killed-at-least-93-caused-by-faulty-hawaiian-electric-power-lines-attorneys-claim\/\" title=\"Faulty Hawaiian Electric power lines caused Maui fires, claim attorneys. Death toll reaches 93.\">gale-force winds<\/a>\u200b and hot, dry summer conditions. These conditions have created the\u2062 perfect \u2063environment for flames to spread rapidly, making it difficult \u2063for \u2064firefighters to gain control.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, there were 105 \u200bwildfires across the country, with 46 of them breaking out within a 24-hour period. The fire department is investigating the causes of these blazes, with arson suspected in some cases.<\/p>\n<h3>Devastation in Northeastern Greece<\/h3>\n<p>In Greece&#8217;s \u2063northeastern regions of Evros and \u2064Alexandroupolis, a massive wildfire has \u200dbeen burning for nine days.\u2062 This wildfire is believed\u200b to be responsible for\u2063 20 out of the 21 wildfire-related deaths in the past week. It has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-firefighters-aircraft-struggle-to-contain-wildfires\/\" title=\"Firefighters and aircraft battle to control wildfires.\">decimated vast tracts<\/a> \u200cof forest and \u2062burned homes in the outlying\u200c areas of Alexandroupolis.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 295 firefighters, seven planes, and five helicopters were tackling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-struggles-with-coronavirus-panic-on-both-north-and-south-borders\/\" title=\"China Struggles with Coronavirus Panic on Both North and South Borders\">flare-ups<\/a> that were creating new fire\u2062 fronts. Evacuation\u200c orders were issued for two villages in the Evros and Rodopi regions. The wildfire \u200dhas scorched 77,000 hectares\u2064 (297\u200d square miles) of land and had 120 active hotspots, according to the European Union&#8217;s Copernicus Emergency Management Service.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Wildfires\u2064 in \u200dGreece<\/h3>\n<p>On \u2064the northwestern fringes of the Greek capital, another major wildfire has\u200d been burning for days. However, it\u2064 is now limited to flare-ups and is being tackled\u2062 by 160 firefighters, one plane, and\u2062 three helicopters. This fire has already destroyed homes and part of a national park on Mount\u200b Parnitha.<\/p>\n<p>A third major wildfire started on the Cycladic island of Andros on Saturday and is still not under control. Currently, 73 firefighters, two planes, and two\u2063 helicopters are working to extinguish the blaze.\u200b Lightning strikes are suspected of having sparked\u200b this wildfire. Flare-ups are \u2062also occurring in a large wildfire in the central region of Viotia.<\/p>\n<h3>International Support and \u200dClimate \u200dChange<\/h3>\n<p>With firefighting forces \u200dstretched to the\u2062 limit, Greece has called for help from other European \u2062countries. Germany, Sweden, \u200bCroatia, and Cyprus have sent aircraft, while firefighters from Romania, France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovakia, and Serbia are assisting on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Southern European\u2062 countries,\u200b with their hot and dry summers, are\u200c particularly prone to wildfires. European Union officials have attributed \u200cthe increasing frequency and \u200dintensity of wildfires\u2062 in Europe to climate change. They note that 2022 was the second-worst year for wildfire damage on record, following 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200ccauses \u200cof Greece&#8217;s two largest fires have not yet been\u200b determined. However,\u200c arson or negligence is suspected in some of the\u200c smaller blazes,\u2064 leading \u200dto several arrests. Greece\u200b imposes wildfire prevention regulations from May to October, aiming to limit\u2062 activities that\u200c could spark fires.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges, firefighters \u200dand aircraft continue to battle the wildfires in\u200b Greece, working tirelessly to contain the flames and protect affected communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this \u200bAssociated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-hundreds-firefighters-aircraft-struggle-contain-wildfires\/\">Hundreds of Firefighters, Aircraft Struggle to Contain Wildfires<\/a> \u200d appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 600 firefighters, with support from European countries, are battling three major wildfires in Greece. Two of these fires have been burning for days. Greece has been dealing with numerous daily fire outbreaks for the past week, prompting the deployment of water-dropping planes and helicopters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2013564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}