A 55-year-old Greek fireman died Sunday whereas battling a wildfire in northern Greece on the outskirts of Thessaloniki port metropolis, Greece’s Hearth Brigade mentioned.
The fireplace, which was not threatening residential zones, had burned an unsure space of low vegetation.
This was the sixth wildfire-related loss of life in Greece this 12 months. Though the wildfire season usually spans Might 1 via Oct. 31, firefighters have been combatting dozens of blazes in November attributable to unseasonably excessive temperatures.
Greece experiences quite a few wildfires every summer season attributable to heatwaves attributed to local weather change, and typically arson.
This 12 months, the nation confronted greater than 4,500 wildfires in what officers referred to as one of the vital difficult firefighting seasons in 40 years. Greater than 14,300 acres of forestland have been burned, in accordance with the Ministry of Local weather Disaster and Civil Safety.
