“We are protesting because they give millions for buying warplanes and police and not for the fire brigade.”Īnother protester, Anna Mitilineou, said: “There is a lot of rage in the public because they have not staffed the special forest fire brigade.
“We are protesting against the government that has let all the country burn, because of profits before people,” demonstrator Nikos Loutos told Reuters. Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Greek Parliament in Athens on Monday over the government’s handling of the wildfires. The military personnel died after rescuing more than 100 people “from the blazing fires” in the mountains of Bejaia and Tizi -Ouzou in the east of the capital. The country has recorded 103 fires in 17 provinces since Monday, according to the Algeria Press Service (APS) report on Tuesday. At least 25 Algerian People’s National Army members have been killed while fighting wildfires east of the Algerian capital Algiers since Monday, the country’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune said in a post to Twitter on Tuesday. While Europe has battled wildfires for weeks, across the Mediterranean, North Africa is also facing the threat. And amid unrelenting drought and record heat, wildfire seasons are now longer and result in more destructive fires.įirefighters and volunteers use a water hose near a burning blaze trying to extinguish a fire in the village of Glatsona on Evia island, on August 9. Scientists are more confident than ever in connecting the dots between the climate crisis and extreme weather: globally, droughts that may have occurred only once every 10 years or so now happen 70% more frequently, according to the report. On Monday, a state-of-the-science report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded it is “unequivocal” that humans have caused the climate crisis and confirmed that “widespread and rapid changes” have already occurred, some of them irreversibly. The world is on the brink of 'catastrophe,' leader of next UN climate talks warns (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images) Milos Bicanski/Getty Images
People were evacuated from their homes after a wildfire reached residential areas of northern Athens as record temperatures were recorded at 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit). ATHENS, GREECE - AUGUST 7: A local resident helps a firefighter to battle fire before it spreads to houses in Thrakomacedones area, in northern Athens, on Augin Athens, Greece.
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