Two Greek air force pilots have died when their Canadair water-bombing plane crashed while battling a forest fire on the island of Evia - defence ministry
Scientists from the World Weather Attribution group said Tuesday the heatwaves that have hit parts of Europe and North America this month would have been almost impossible without human-caused climate crisis.WWF Greece on Tuesday said 35,000 hectares of forest and other land had been scorched by fire in the country just in the past week.
Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday, after tens of thousands of people had already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home on evacuation flights. The Greek transport ministry said over 2,100 people had flown home on emergency flights on Sunday and Monday.
Mitsotakis said Greece's state apparatus faced a"major challenge" as the prolonged heatwave and successive wildfires had officials on a 24-hour alert footing for"several weeks."
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