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Our country must be protected from fire because it is protected against earthquakes, says academician Christos Zerefos in an interview to RES, citing the danger we will have in the next decades forty days of fires. forests.
We must study the phenomena in depth, he explains, while identifying the causes of the disaster in the absence of escape routes, pines and the notion that a great road can always prevent the spread of fire
What is the explanation of the disaster?
The disaster was obviously going to happen as it will happen and other disasters if we do not change our state of mind. 19659002] What are you referring to in particular?
We have prevented escape routes in cases like the one we met last night at Mati. It is a real suicide or the absence of a pbadage to the sea. I rent, we overestimated the ability of a road to prevent the fire from going away. one side to the other. That's exactly what happened at Marathon Avenue. The situation was not properly estimated, the fire went off without a discharge order. But the major, I repeat, it's the non-escape escape
Does it happen in the past that a road does not work like a Natural barrier
I immediately remember 2009 in Drafi. Everyone believed that Achaeon Street would be an obstacle to the spread of fire that then came from Dionysus. But the fire does not stop when it goes down. They just have to be ready to evacuate the area with clear instructions. (19659002) Should we learn to live with fires?
Up to now, engineers have focused on protecting against earthquakes. And absolutely right since our country is seismogenic. On the other hand, however, it is also pyrogenic. The fires in our country, we know very well, can kill. It was unfortunately now in Attica, as was the case in Ilia eleven years ago and will be repeated in the future if we do not take the appropriate measures
Climatic conditions make this reality inevitable
The increase in temperature and drought is a deadly combination. This year, of course, we did not have a drought, we had a lot of rain. And this happened: Because of the moisture in the soil, the lower parts of the trees were not burned, but the fire spread from the higher branches.
Life in tree-lined areas What rules does it impose
Cleaning is very important. Usually, homeowners who do not live in the area do not clean up their plots. Municipalities should punish those who do not care about dry cleaning, flammable waste, etc. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The result is that those who live in the mountains of Attica always have the fear of burning from one day to the next
Are the pines even bigger?
You give me the reason to be touched the burning question of afforestation. The reforestations are made with pines that, thanks to rosin, are ready to illuminate. Afforestation is not done with the flora that existed. In Penteli Mountain, for example, only a small room had pine trees. And that was the piece on the side where there were swamps at Schinias etc. On the rest of the mountain there were no pines, writes Dimitrios Eginitis in the volume published in 1910 "The climate of Attica"
And now? In the 21st century
Suffice it to say that by the end of the century we will have forty days of additional forest fires. But it seems unthinkable to legalize buildings in flammable areas. We have a huge deficit in the issue of the appropriate spatial distribution of housing and roads. We have to study in depth the phenomena, we have seen what happened with the explosive water flow in Mandra, we have now seen what happened with the explosive transfer of thermal energy
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