Greece

This year has already been a damaging one for wildfires in Greece with the most recent example being the large blaze on Mount Penteli in Athens' northern suburbs that ignited on July 19th. In the first few months of 2022,...

The Great Fire of Smyrna and the killing of dozens of thousands of Greeks and Armenians by the Turkish Army and renegades several years after the end of WWI still remains one of the darkest moments of Greek history. Nevertheless,...

  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras  announced on Thursday that a National Emergency Response Service is to be established to replace the General Secretariat for Civil Protection. The decision was made following the fatal Attica wildfires last month that killed 93 people,...

The Greek government has replaced the heads of the Hellenic Police and the Fire Department in light of the recent blazes in East Attica that left 91 people dead and dozens injured. The replacements follow Friday's resignation of Deputy Citizen...

The fire-stricken residents of Mati struggle to bring their lives back to normal, but it is a process that moves agonizingly slow. The magnitude and complexity of the disaster have made the next day very frustrating for the survivors of...

The first lawsuit by the family of two victims of the East Attica fires was filed against the Greek State on Wednesday. The lawsuit is directed against Secretary General of Civil Protection Yannis Kapakis, Governor of Attica Region Rena Dourou,...

The head of Greek firemen federation and the leader of a coast guard rescue mission criticized the government for responding slow and misinforming the public on the deadly East Attica wildfires. Dimitris Stathopoulos, the head of the firefighters' federation spoke...

Last Monday marked one of the deadliest of fires Greece has seen in Mati, Greece. Greek Reporter published information from the Hellenic Fire Department Arson Agency (DAEE) on Saturday that suggests that the cause of the fires which started in...

A report from the Hellenic Fire Department Arson Agency (DAEE) suggests that the cause of fires that started north of Mati, was negligence, despite claims of arson by government officials. The report followed comments on Thursday by Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas,...

Greece's government spokesman, the citizen protection minister, the chiefs of police and the fire department denied any responsibility and offered no apologies for the inability to save lives in the East Attica catastrophic fires. In a press conference late on...

A recent report, brought together by the deputy commander of the Greek Fire Service, Adrianos Gourbatsis, revealed that 1.6 million hectares of land was burned in Greece between 1981 and 2014. The average expanse of land burned annually is...

A bomb exploded on Tuesday morning causing serious damages at the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) offices in Athens. The explosion occurred at 3:35 am at Xenofontos Street, next to Syntagma Square, and the noise was heard kilometers away. Several...

Six people were seriously injured, while two of them are in critical condition, when a fire broke out at the Hellenic Petroleum refinery tank in Aspropyrgos, Greece on Friday, May 8. The injured have been transferred to Thriasio and...

A group of eight Israeli firefighters traveled to Greece in order to train along with the Hellenic Fire Department. The team led by Israeli National Operations Officer Dora Levy stayed in the country from August 18 to 28. They trained with Greek...

As summer is coming to an end, the first estimates of the Hellenic Fire Department (HFD) is that the number of forest fires in Greece this year fell sharply. Unlike previous summer periods, the measurable effects of fires in 2014...