Wildfires in Greece have meant authorities have now had to close motorways to stop them from reaching an oil refinery. Just yesterday popular holiday resorts were evacuated due to the fires.
‘The Fire Service had to intervene in many instances to get people out of their homes,’ the spokesman said.
Wildfires continued to burn out of control on Tuesday to the north and west of Athens, including a blaze near the resort town of Loutraki, where more homes were damaged and evacuations were expanded. Several smaller fires also broke out closer to the capital, where winds remained moderate but where scrub and forest land were dried out by extreme temperatures last week.
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