H Iταλία δοκιμάζεται απο πυρκαγιές

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Εδώ και δύο εβδομάδες η Σικελία καίγεται

Jul 11, 2023

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Jul 25, 2023

Σήμερα δε, λόγο ισχυρών ανέμων, οι φωτιές έφτασαν μέχρι το αεροδρόμιο του Παλέρμο

καθώς και τα προάστια της πόλης

Μα καλά, γιατί δεν την σβήνουν την φωτιά;

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Χάλια η κατάσταση και στην Απουλία όπου φωτιές μαίνονται πάνω απο μία εβδομάδα

Jul 20, 2023

Jul 21, 2023

Σήμερα μάλιστα, όπως και σε άλλα μέρη της Ιταλίας, οι άνεμοι δυνάμωσαν, γύρω στα 20 km/h, λάητ, όχι σαν τα 60+ km/h της Ρόδου, και ... :

25 lug 2023


Fires in Puglia, San Cataldo (Lecce) burns. Appeal to health workers: 'Come, maxi emergency'. In Vieste evacuated thousands of tourists

In Salento bathers made to leave beach, vacationers leave homes taking gas canisters with them. High flames loom over homes. In Foggiano resort, hotels and campsites empty out: set up a gym for the night

https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/vies ... e-on5iq2v6

Mα καλά, γιατί δεν την σβήνουν την φωτιά;

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Άσχημα τα νέα και απο την Καλαβρία, η οποία επίσης φλέγεται εδώ και πάνω απο 10 ημέρες

Jul 13, 2023

σήμερα δυστυχώς είχαμε και τον πρώτο θάνατο

Reggio Calabria, July 25, 2023 - The first fire victim in Calabria is a 98-year-old man who died in Cardeto, on Aspromonte, in the province of Reggio Calabria. According to reports, the elderly man, who was bedridden, was reportedly caught in the flames that enveloped his country home. His daughter and son-in-law, who had tried to carry the elderly man out of the home, were injured but managed to get to safety. Four people, residents of the same municipality, were severely burned by the flames, and one of them had to be admitted to the Catania Large Burn Center. More than 20 firefighting units arrived in the fire area, with support also from a mobile unit sent by the Campania Region.

In 2021, also in Cardeto, another elderly man had died while trying to save property and animals from advancing flames. Yesterday, the mayor of Cardeto had ordered the evacuation of the area precisely because of the rapidly advancing fires that are bringing Cardeto, Mosorrofa, and Gallina to their knees. Along the Tyrrhenian route, trains are marking an average of one hundred minute delays, while the A2 junction of 'Piani della Corona,' between Scilla and Bagnara Calabra, and the Ionian State Highway 106 at the height of the town of Ferruzzano, have been temporarily closed to vehicular traffic. The flames, which started yesterday, are still attacking the oak forests behind the Pentimele hill, in the northern area of Reggio Calabria, despite the incessant work of the canadair, firefighters and civil protection, while new fires are reported in the hills of Pellaro.

https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/uomo ... o-xh3tkjyg

Μα καλά, γιατί δεν την σβήνουν την φωτιά;

[vallon]

λαϊκισμός
αφού δεν έχουν ένα ήρωα κουλή στο τιμόνι τι να σβήσουν;

Εδω βέβαια έχουμε άλλη μια εκδοχή της γκεμπελικής προπαγάνδας
κοιτάτε
όλος ο κόσμο; καίγεται
μην παραπονιέστε

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κοιτάτε
όλος ο κόσμο; καίγεται
μην παραπονιέστε

Ισχύει.

Στη Μαδαγασκάρη και γενικά το νότο της Αφρικής ΠΗΡΕ ΦΩΤΙΑ Ο ΚΩΛΟΣ ΤΟΥΣ.

Και σκέψου ότι εκεί έχουν και χειμώνα τώρα ε;

[vallon]

κοιτάτε
όλος ο κόσμο; καίγεται
μην παραπονιέστε

Ισχύει.

Στη Μαδαγασκάρη και γενικά το νότο της Αφρικής ΠΗΡΕ ΦΩΤΙΑ Ο ΚΩΛΟΣ ΤΟΥΣ.

Και σκέψου ότι εκεί έχουν και χειμώνα τώρα ε;

Νομίζω ότι θα πρέπει να εξετάσουμε το πότε και αν έγινε ποτέ να καταστράφηκε απο φωτιά ο νότιος πόλος
αυτό θα είναι κάτι που πρέπει να τονιστεί στην ελληνική κοινή γνώμη, να μην νομίζεις ότι μόνο εδώ καίγονται όλα

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Couple burned to death at home as toll mounts from Mediterranean wildfires

Two elderly people found burned to death in their home in Italy are among at least 40 people killed as wildfires rage across huge swaths of the Mediterranean.

Countries including Italy, Greece and Algeria are deploying thousands of firefighters to battle the devastating fires, which have been fueled by scorching temperatures and strong winds.

The highest death toll is in Algeria, where wildfires ripped through 11 provinces in the North African nation, killing at least 34 people, state broadcaster EPTV News reported Monday, citing the country’s interior ministry and local groups. Ten of the victims were soldiers, Reuters reported.

More than 8,000 firefighters have been deployed to control the blazes as residents living near forested areas were evacuated, according to EPTV.

The situation now appears to be under control, according to Algeria’s Civil Protection services, which said that it has managed to contain all wildfires, in a statement on Wednesday.

Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by extreme heat in Europe, is battling 10 fires in the south of the country including blazes in Sicily, Calabria, Abruzzo and Puglia, where 2,000 people were evacuated from three hotels on Tuesday evening.

The fires claimed at least four lives on Tuesday, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

A 98-year-old man died as flames reached his home in the coastal city of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy, according to ANSA.

In Palermo in Sicily, two people in their 70s were found burned to death in their home near Palermo and an 88-year-old woman died when an ambulance called for her was blocked by the fires.

In some parts of Sicily, temperatures reached 47.4 Celsius (117.3 Fahrenheit) on Monday, edging close to the European temperature record of 48.8 degrees Celsius, set in 2021.

Italy’s meteorological agency said that temperatures will dip slightly over the coming days in the south before climbing again towards the weekend.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that the fires and extreme weather disasters are putting the country “to the test.”

She came short of announcing a state of emergency in the country as many regions are demanding, tweeting that the government had “deployed all the means at its disposal.”

Further west, in parts of Portugal and southern Spain, emergency teams struggled to contain wildfires on Wednesday as residents were evacuated from the affected regions.

Outside the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, on Wednesday morning over 500 firefighters remained at the scene of a wildfire that broke out in the Cascais area, according to Portuguese public broadcaster, RTP. Firefighters remained at the scene after the fire was contained.

In the Spanish municipality of Tejeda on Gran Canaria, a forest fire broke out on Tuesday in an area where 200 hectares of land had already burned down, according to Spanish public broadcaster, RTVE.

In Greece, the fire service said 61 new wildfires ravaged parts of the country amid sweltering temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

The country’s fire service said on Wednesday that new blazes prompted evacuation orders in some parts of the cities of Lamia and Volos, after nearly 20,000 people were evacuated from homes and tourist resorts in Rhodes over the weekend.

The carbon emissions from the blazes are the highest in the past two decades, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). Around 1 megaton of carbon emissions was recorded from July 1 to July 25, CAMS said, adding that the wildfires are expected to affect the air quality in the region.

Maria Feggou, a volunteer with the Hellenic Red Cross fighting the blaze in Rhodes, said that the situation is difficult to describe. “Half of the island is in flames, and it seems uncontrollable,” Feggou told CNN on Tuesday.

In Evia, two pilots aged 27 and 34 died when their aircraft crashed during a firefighting operation over the island, the Greek Air Force said in a statement. Greece’s armed forces announced three days of national mourning.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at a government cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the fires were “a tough test” for the country. He warned that “things will probably get worse, not better, with warmer temperatures, more drought, stronger winds.”

The Greek weather agency has warned of rising temperatures in some parts of the country, while the island of Crete has been placed under a state of alarm for extreme risk of fire.

In Turkey, forest wildfires ignited Monday night in the southern Mediterranean province of Antalya, according to Antalya Municipality’s statement.

Antalya’s Mayor Muhittin Bocek said Tuesday, “Our efforts to extinguish the forest fire that broke out last night in Antalya’s Kemer district continue.”

Bocek said 180 hectares of land were affected and the fire was hard to bring under control due to the steepness of the area and the strength of the winds, according to the statement.

A total of 10 homes near the fire were evacuated as a precaution. Six people are being treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation, according to Turkey’s state media Anadolu.

Fires have also broken out in Croatia, south of the city of Dubrovnik, according to the Croatian fire service. Around 130 firefighters and two aircraft have been battling the fires, which are now under control, the fire service said in a statement on Wednesday.

Scientists are clear that the kind of extreme weather, which is causing destruction across swaths of the Mediterranean, will become more frequent and more severe as long as the world continues to burn planet-heating fossil fuels.

Without the human-caused climate crisis, Europe’s searing heat wave, which has baked several southern European countries and primed the land for wildfires, would have been “virtually impossible,” according to a report on Tuesday.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/26/worl ... index.html

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Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries

‘There is no magical defence mechanism,’ says Greek prime minister as fires burn in northern Africa and southern Europe

Wildfires were burning in at least nine countries across the Mediterranean on Tuesday as blazes spread in Croatia, Italy and Portugal, with thousands of firefighters in Europe and north Africa working to contain flames stoked by high temperatures, dry conditions and strong winds.

At least 34 people were killed in Algeria, where 8,000 firefighters on Tuesday battled blazes across the tinder-dry north. Fires burned in a total of 15 provinces, leading to the evacuation of more than 1,500 people from their properties.

Witnesses described fleeing walls of flames that raged “like a blowtorch”, destroying homes and coastal resorts and turning vast forest areas into blackened wastelands.

Algerian online news site TSA quoted the National Meteorological Office as saying temperatures had reached 50C (122F) in some regions.

Among those killed this week were 10 soldiers trapped by flames at Beni Ksila, in Bejaia province, according to the defence ministry. The official APS news agency reported on Monday night that 34 people had died across several regions.

Local media reflected anger about the latest deadly fires. The TSA news site asked: “In view of all these measures, why couldn’t we avoid the disaster?”

Fanned by strong winds, fires forced the closure of two border crossings with neighbouring Tunisia, where blazes have been especially fierce in the north-western Tabarka region.

More than 300 people were evacuated from the coastal village of Melloula by boat and overland and firefighters were still battling blazes on Tuesday in three areas in the north-west: Bizerte, Siliana and Beja. Firefighters struggled to extinguish flames destroying forests and citrus and hazelnut groves.

The official TAP news agency reported one death, that of a school principal who died of asphyxiation from a fire in Nafza, in the north-west.

Wildfires also broke out in the woodlands of Latakia, a governorate on the Mediterranean in north-western Syria, and helicopters are being used to extinguish fires.

“Firefighting teams are working to put out the massive wildfires that have broken out in the woods of Latakia northern countryside which are still uncontrolled until now,” the North Press Agency reported firefighters as saying on Tuesday.

Italy has been hit by violent storms and wildfires. At least seven people were killed on Tuesday after storms in the north and wildfires in Sicily.

Among those killed was a 16-year-old girl. The prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said the girl died when a tree fell on her tent during a scout camp near Brescia after high winds and torrential rain overnight.

Milan residents reported torrential rain and hail on Tuesday morning, which flooded streets and uprooted trees, some of which fell on to parked cars.

While the north was drenched, the heatwave across the south persisted, with temperatures of 47.6C (117F) recorded in the eastern Sicilian city of Catania on Monday. The bodies of two people in their 70s were found in a house destroyed by the flames, while an 88-year-old woman was found near the Sicilian city of Palermo, according to media reports.

Sicily’s regional president, Renato Schifani, said he planned to ask the government to declare a state of emergency for the island. A decision was expected to be made at Wednesday’s ministers’ meeting in Rome.

The civil protection minister. Nello Musumeci, wrote on Facebook: “We are experiencing in Italy one of the most complicated days in recent decades – rainstorms, tornadoes and giant hail in the north, and scorching heat and devastating fires in the centre and south. The climate upheaval that has hit our country demands of us all … a change of attitude.”

Italian firefighters said they tackled nearly 1,400 fires between Sunday and Tuesday, including 650 in Sicily and 390 in Calabria, the southern mainland region where a bedridden 98-year-old man was killed as fire consumed his home.



Meanwhile, prosecutors in Palermo launched an investigation into the wildfires that have hit the Sicilian capital. According to investigators, dozens of fires could have been set deliberately by people, with hot winds and dry conditions fuelling the blazes.

For years, the Sicilian mafia has been suspected of being involved in the wildfires, pushed by the lucrative reforestation contracts, although that link has not been proved in this week’s fires.

On Wednesday, authorities in Calabria released a video of an arson suspect caught on camera by a drone. The Governor of Calabria said the man was reported to the police.

Greece has also been particularly hard hit this summer, with authorities evacuating more than 20,000 people in recent days from homes and resorts in the south of the holiday island of Rhodes.

Close to 3,000 tourists had returned home by plane as of Tuesday, according to figures from the transport ministry, and tour operators have cancelled upcoming trips.

Two firefighting pilots died when their plane, which had been dropping water, crashed on a hillside close to the town of Karystos on the island of Evia, east of Athens.

The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said: “I will state the obvious: in the face of what the entire planet is facing, especially the Mediterranean which is a climate change hotspot, there is no magical defence mechanism, if there was we would have implemented it.”

The body of a 41-year-old farmer, missing since Sunday, was also found in a shack in a remote area.

New evacuations were ordered overnight on the islands of Corfu, Evia and Rhodes, where thousands of tourists were moved to safety over the weekend.

In France, nearly 100 firefighters were trying to contain a wildfire in the municipalities of Cagnes-sur-Mer and Villeneuve-Loubet, close to Nice international airport, officials said on Tuesday.

The Bouches-du-Rhone department on Tuesday was placed under a “red alert”, with authorities seeing a “very high risk” of wildfires. More than 300 firefighters were battling to contain fires near the city of Arles, police said.

In Croatia, winds were so strong that firefighting aircraft could not take off, local media reported. Firefighters battled wildfires that were spreading just south of the Adriatic city of Dubrovnik, a tourism destination, late on Tuesday.

“It’s been a long night but we managed to stave off the part (of the fire) that is important because of the houses,” firefighting unit commander Stjepan Simovic told the Associated Press. “We must be careful because the wind has started to pick up and the fire can grow again.”

Winds brought disaster to neighbouring Montenegro, where two people drowned and several were injured when strong southern winds hit the coast, port authorities in the towns of Ulcinj and Petrovac said.

A rapidly spreading wildfire at the centre of Spain’s island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday prompted authorities to remove several hundred villagers, shut three roads and deploy firefighting helicopters.

Antonio Morales, head of the Island Council of Gran Canaria, said about 100 firefighters and nine aircraft were working to put out the blaze that had so far burned through 200 hectares of forest.

In Portugal, usually one of the European countries worst hit by wildfires, according to EU data, hundreds of firefighters scrambled on Tuesday to put out flames near the popular holiday destination of Cascais, with strong winds complicating efforts.

The wildfire started in a mountainous area of the Sintra-Cascais park, which covers about 56 sq miles (145 sq km) west of Lisbon. More than 600 firefighters were brought in and water-bombing planes also battled the blaze but had to stop operating as the night set in.

The mayor of Cascais, Carlos Carreiras, said gusts of up to 37mph were the biggest challenge and that some people had been evacuated as a precaution.

Portugal is under a widespread drought affecting 90% of the country.

In Turkey, a hospital and a dozen homes were evacuated as a precaution in the coastal town of Kemer, where firefighters for a third day battled a blaze raging through a woodland. At least 10 planes, 22 helicopters and hundreds of firefighters were deployed to extinguish the fire as meteorologists warned temperatures could rise several degrees above seasonal averages.

On Wednesday, the EU commissioner for crisis management, Janez Lenarčič said Brussels wanted to sign contracts this year for up to 12 firefighting planes to improve its ability to fight blazes fuelled by climate heating.

The EU had already doubled its existing reserve fleet of firefighting aircraft in the past year, after devastating fires last summer in southern Europe exhausted its previous 13-craft capacity.

“The situation that we see in southern Europe shows that we are in the climate crisis. It’s already here,” Lenarčič said.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... a-portugal

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Wildfires bring death and destruction to sun-scorched Mediterranean

RHODES/ALGIERS, July 25 (Reuters) - Large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave on Tuesday and firefighters battled to put out blazes across the region.

In Algeria, at least 34 people have died. In Croatia, flames came within 12 km (7.5 miles) of the medieval town of Dubrovnik late on Tuesday.

Greece has been particularly hard hit, with authorities evacuating more than 20,000 people in recent days from homes and resorts in the south of the holiday island of Rhodes.

Close to 3,000 tourists had returned home by plane as of Tuesday, according to figures from the Transport Ministry, and tour operators have cancelled upcoming trips.

Two firefighting pilots died when their plane, which had been dropping water, crashed on a hillside close to the town of Karystos on the island of Evia, east of Athens.

Italy suffered a twin pounding from the elements when severe storms battered the north, killing a woman and a 16-year-old girl scout, while southern regions sweltered. In the south, a bedridden 98-year-old man died when fire swept through his home.

Fires also swept across Portugal and Spain's Gran Canaria.

In the U.S., the ocean waters around South Florida soared to typical hot-tub levels this week, according to government data. A weather buoy in the waters of Manatee Bay recorded a high of 101.19 degrees Fahrenheit (38.44 Celsius) late Monday afternoon, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data. On land, heat warnings were issued for stretches of the desert southwest, in central Texas and north into the Midwest.

Extreme weather throughout July has caused havoc across the planet, with record temperatures in China, the U.S. and southern Europe sparking forest fires, water shortages and a rise in heat-related hospital admissions.

Without human-induced climate change, the events this month would have been "extremely rare", according to a study by World Weather Attribution, a global team of scientists that examines the role played by climate change in extreme weather.

The heat, with temperatures topping 40 C (104 F), is well in excess of what usually attracts tourists who flock to southern European beaches.

The high temperatures and parched ground sparked wildfires in countries on both sides of the Mediterranean.

Several dozen firefighters were using aircraft to battle a wildfire that had broken out close to Nice international airport in southern France.

In north Africa, Algeria was fighting to contain devastating forest fires along its Mediterranean coast in a blaze which has already killed at least 34 people. Fanned by strong winds, fires also forced the closure of two border crossings with neighbouring Tunisia.

Wildfires also broke out in the countryside around Syria's Mediterranean port city, Latakia, with the authorities using army helicopters to try to put them out.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wi ... 023-07-25/

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