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The main hospital of Alexandroupolis in northeast Greece has been evacuated, as wildfires have engulfed the coastal town near the border with Turkey. Dozens of patients accompanied by doctors and nurses have been transferred as a precaution to a ferry...

One person died on Monday from at least three major wildfires that rage in Greece. According to police, the victim is an elderly shepherd who rushed to his sheepfold to save the animals from the blaze near the village...

Greece will offer a week of free holidays on Rhodes to tourists who were forced to cut their stay on the island short due to devastating wildfires, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Wednesday. Thousands of tourists were evacuated from...

The captain and co-pilot of a firefighting airplane in Greece were both killed when their aircraft crashed on the island of Evia while it was trying to put out a blaze, the air force said. Flight Lt. Christos Moulas, 34,...

A satellite image of the EU's Copernicus space program shows the extent of the destruction by the wildfire on the Greek island of Rhodes. More than 100 square kilometers of land, including a virgin forest, has been burned so far...

At least three villages and a hotel have been evacuated on the Greek island of Rhodes as a wildfire in the center of the island is burning a forest uncontrollably. The fire broke out in the area of Apollona on...

Wildfires are raging in Greece for a third day on Wednesday as a punishing heatwave is engulfing the country. Hundreds of firefighters are battling the flames at Dervenochoria, west of Athens, which, according to the fire service is the most...

New research suggests that fire from the sky in the form of a small asteroid annihilated an ancient city near the Dead Sea now called Tall el-Hammam in the biblical city of Sodom located in the Jordan Valley 3,600...

Dozens of firefighters are battling the flames of two large wildfires that broke out south and west of Athens on Monday. The first blaze broke out in the Kouvaras area in Attica in the early afternoon, and a warning was...

New emerging evidence discovered in South Africa nullifies prior suggestions indicating that homo sapiens was the first species to use fire. Analysis of fossil remains unearthed from the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa indicates that Homo naledi, an...