According to recent data, 50 people were lost, one and a half hundred suffered, among them there are a lot of small children. The flame approached so quickly that people simply did not manage to leave the house, to get out by car, among victims and rolled in the sea. In rescue service calls about missing persons constantly arrive.
to Manage to reach water — almost only way to survive. On the bank of one hundred people select saving boats, the fishing boats which simply have a rest on the yachts. But all the same popular resort town of MATI as reported the authorities, ceased to exist. On country houses which rescuers managed to reach, the whole families which have choked with a smoke. Many small children were lost.
"Fire was directly for us! Simply behind the back! We were lucky, we reached water, but all of us equally got burns. Probably, this horror can be compared to eruption of Vesuvius in Pompeii" — the local told.
Fire destroys everything on the way. Inhabited constructions, cars burn down completely. Someone in despair refuses to throw the houses and to the last tries to fight against a fire, waters walls from a hose — even when a flame already in couple of meters.
"We at all did not understandhow everything occurred — the fire extended very quickly, I never saw anything similar" — the inhabitant added.
of Naval Forces Greece involved Air UAVs to study areas, victims of fires. And military of vessels were connected to search of people. Some rescued in the sea – in several kilometers from the coast. Find also bodies of victims. Searches of the Danish tourists which, trying to escape from the fiery front are still conducted, put out to sea by the boat.
Fires practically reached the capital Greece. The veil of a caustic smoke now dims the sky over gorod Afiny and reached the well-known Acropolis and the temple of Parthenon. The part of inhabitants of suburbs is already evacuated. The situation left from under-under controls, the prime minister declared Greece.
"It is the difficult moment for Region of Attica, it is difficult night for Greece. Now on three large sites more than 600 firefighters, 300 pieces of equipment" are mobilized — the prime minister noted Greece Alexis Tsipras.
the heat of a resort season — to Greece has a rest many Russians. But while there is no information that someone from them suffered.
the Situation in the country critical, declared state of emergency. The authorities ask for help at EU. Spain already directed amphibians for the help in suppression of fires. Still it is not possible to localize at once three big seats of fire. Everything is aggravated with an abnormal heat and a strong wind which extends fire with a huge speed.