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The coastal fire triggers evacuation orders, a few days after the state of emergency declared on fires on the Aegean Island of Chios.
A rapidly evolving forest fire swallowed holiday homes and forestry homes on a section of the Greek coast just 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, Athens.
Over 100 firefighters, supported by two dozen fire fighting planes, fought the forest fire This tore the coastal area of Palaia Fokaia on Thursday, officials announced. The flames were whipped by strong winds while temperatures approached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees fahrenheit) in the first heat wave in the summer country.
The spokesperson for the fire service Vassilis Vathrakogiannis told journalists that 40 people had been evacuated by the police, with evacuation orders issued for a total of five areas. A roadway by the sea crossing the affected areas was protective, he added.
The coast guard declared that two patrol boats and nine private ships were pending in the region of Palaia Fokaia in case an evacuation by sea is necessary.
“We tell people to leave their homes,” said local city councilor Apostolos Papadakis on Ert television from Greece.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known, but the spokesperson for the fire service said that a fire fire unit was sent to the region.
Local mayor Dimitris Loukas said on Ert Television that several houses would have been damaged by the fire.
The region of wider Athens, as well as several Aegean Islands, were at level 4 of a scale of 5 levels measuring the risk of forest fires due to weather conditions, the heat wave should last until weekend.
At the beginning of the week, hundreds of firefighters took four days to master a major forest fire on the eastern Aegean of Chios, where a state of emergency was declared and more than a dozen evacuation orders issued.
The fire service said that a woman had been arrested for suspicion of having contributed to the spark of this fire.
Greece has spent hundreds of millions of euros to compensate for households and farmers for damage linked to extreme weather conditions and to acquire new equipment to treat with forest fires.
He increased his number of firefighters to 18,000 record this year.
Scientists say climate change contributes to extreme weather conditions and to prolong the heat waves for billions of people around the world.
