FLASH
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More than 670 firefighters are working to control the powerful fires that have burned more than 15,000 hectares of forest and dozens of homes on the outskirts of Athens.
Atika continues to face the fiery nightmare, due to the fire that has been burning since noon on Sunday, while during the night in a building in Patima Vrilission, a burnt body, possibly that of a woman, was found.
Winds today are weaker than yesterday, but operating forces are faced with many scattered active foci.
The explosions of new outbreaks are continuous with the most intense problem in Nea Makri where the flames have approached the first dwellings in the Erythros settlement.
The fire brigade sent a message to residents to leave the settlement via Marathon Avenue towards Rafina.
The fires disabled high voltage lines and medium voltage substations.
According to the Fire Danger Forecast Map, a very high fire risk (risk category 4) is predicted for today for the following areas:
- Region of Attica
- Region of Central Greece (PE Boeotia, PE Evia)
Firefighters engaged
702 firefighters with 27 forestry teams, 199 vehicles and volunteers are working to extinguish the fire with the help of all Civil Defense agencies as well as 3 planes and 9 helicopters, one of which is coordinating.
Today, forces from France, Italy, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Romania are expected to arrive in Greece for help through the European Civil Protection Mechanism.
In the meantime, firefighters have removed the dead body of a 60-year-old woman from a building that was engulfed in flames in a place called Patima Halandri in Greece.
Earlier, the industrial building where the victim worked was engulfed in a fire that broke out in the area on Monday afternoon.
20 employees of the company were evacuated in time, but the woman, who is known to be a foreign citizen and had a residence permit in Greece, could not get out and as a result lost her life in the flames. Her body was found charred and sent to the morgue. where the forensic expertise is expected to be carried out.
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