Athens: The wildfires spread across Greece that is now seeming uncontrollable have claimed the lives of two persons and six areas have been put on high alert.
Huge clouds of smoke are billowing over the northern outskirts of Athens, where people are being urged to leave their homes.
A 38-year-old volunteer firefighter was killed by a falling electricity pole in a suburb of the capital.
Greece’s prime minister says a heatwave has turned the country into a power keg.
Firefighters are battling 154 wildfires across the country.
Greek firefighters battled to bring under control two major fires raging near Olympia and on the island of Evia as the country swelters in a record-breaking heatwave.
More than 170 firefighters, around 50 trucks, six helicopters and water-bombing aircraft were deployed near the ancient archeological site, the birthplace of the Olympic games, on the Peloponnese peninsula.
As Wildfires raged uncontrolled through Greece and Turkey for yet another day, it forced thousands to flee.
Eight people have died in Turkey’s blazes, described as the worst in decades, that swept through swaths of the southern coast for the past 10 days.
