"incendiary mouths". Tourists flee into the sea

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Flames have burned more than a thousand buildings and destroyed hundreds of cars. Thousands of people are evacuated and fleeing. A huge tragedy that strikes the country during the tourist season, with appalling details, especially concerning Mati, a small town where many Greeks have second homes. Here, trapped by the flames, 26 people seem to be part of the same family or a group of friends, they died together charred while seeking an escape to the sea. Among them, dismayed witnesses, found mothers hugging their children, in a desperate attempt to protect them. A new, tragic Pompeii. Some people – including two Polish citizens – drowned once they reached the sea.

Five corpses were recovered between yesterday and today by the Greek coastguard, including that of 39, a child, off Artemida, not far from Rafina. But the sea represented salvation for hundreds of other people who dumped on the beaches of the area, jumping into the water and starting to swim. Some said that they had desperately reached the open sea, and they stayed there for hours because the fire was almost at the water's edge. All the survivors spoke of the speed of the fires, which reached them in homes, hotels, cars or on the streets. Many spoke of "fire like streams of lava" that swallowed everything. Along the streets, car wrecks are an impressive scene tonight. While the last homes are extinguished – in 24 hours, throughout Greece, there were 47 fires, some very important in Corinth, Chania, Crete – the high number of phone calls from people who Do not have any expensive news in the area at toll-free numbers created by Hellenic Emergency Preparedness and the dozens of missing photos posted on social media fears that the death toll may even exceed a hundred.

Thanks to #Cyprus ? ? & #Spain them for their offers of badistance to #Greece ?? via #EUCivPro which includes a team of 64 firefighters and paramedics, 2 firefighters trucks and 2 Canadair firefighting planes. #EU ?? #solidarity in action pic.twitter.com/m64TYcdP53

– Christos Stylianides (@StylianidesEU) July 24, 2018

Hundreds of people, from all military and civilian bodies of the state, participate in rescue. At the time, he said in the evening the Farnesina Crisis Unit, they are not untraceable Italians nor hospitalized among the wounded. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who proclaimed three days of national mourning, promised in a dramatic speech aired on television that "nothing will be left unanswered" about the causes of the fires. A clear allusion to the fact that the Greek government suspects that the fires are malevolent, since flames erupted in different and distant places. Tsipras himself, in the morning, had spoken of "asymmetrical fires".

Some Greek media speculate that arsonists have come into action to loot abandoned houses by tourists or for speculation building purposes. But this will only be clarified by surveys. Arriving at the scene of the disaster, Tsipras declared that "today, Greece is in mourning and in memory of those who have died, we declare three days of national mourning, but we should not let mourning overwhelming, being united, brave.It is a struggle to save what can be saved, a fight to conquer the fire, a struggle to find the missing, so as not to cry for other lives and lives.

There are no words to describe our feelings in these moments: the country is experiencing an indescribable tragedy, dozens of human lives have disappeared, and there are no words to describe the feelings of those affected. is unbearable for everyone, especially for families who have lost their lives. The solidarity of the world came to Greece in shock, with help, means and men. Others from the United States, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Spain, Israel, the European Union, also from the nemea to Turkey: all have said that they were ready to lend a helping hand. Italy, as announced Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, immediately made available two Canadair. The catastrophic fire brought back to the Greek spirit another flaming mbadacre: in 2007, 60 people died in the fires that broke out in the Peloponnese.

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– Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) July 24, 2018