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In southeastern Greece, constant fires claimed the lives of 74 people. Hundreds of houses and cars were destroyed.
In Greece, in the region of Attica, fires do not subsist on the second day. The fire took away 74 people, about 100 are missing. Among the dead are many young children as well as foreign tourists.
This month of July has been hot for countries from different continents. However, for Greece, the abnormal heat has become a real disaster.
Local television talks about the beginning of the apocalypse and calls the deadly fires a national tragedy, and the authorities have instituted the state of emergency and announced a three-day complaint. Correspondent.net tells the details.
Fires in Greece
Since the beginning of this month in Greece there is a hot weather – in recent days the air temperature has reached 38-40 ° C. On Monday, around Athens, there were 15 fire departments. According to the Greek authorities, the situation has become uncontrollable.
Due to forest fires in the south-east of the country, 74 people were killed, including children and foreign tourists, and more than 160 people were injured. The fires have already destroyed more than 500 country houses and 200 cars.
Victims may turn out to be much bigger, because the fire continues to receive calls from people who are looking for their loved ones.
In the extinction of forest fires in Greece involved rescuers from the eight countries of the European Union. Ukraine has also offered assistance to the Greeks.
According to preliminary information, among the victims of the flames in the region of Athens, no Ukrainian citizen has been reported to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Greek city of Mati, home to the main fire centers, is located in the Rafina-Pikermion community. It is popular with tourists, retirees and children who are resting in summer camps.
"Mati no longer exists as a village, I saw dead bodies, burned cars, I was lucky enough to stay alive," said an inhabitant of Skai TV
.
Authorities urge people not to stay at home, but to shut them up and let the smoke go.
Local resident Nikos Stavrinnidis said the fire surprised everyone. Spitting smoke and powerful flow, he and his family and several people began to sail quickly from the shore.
They were in the water for two hours while the fishing boat was not picking them up. However, two people lost their lives in the waves.
Meanwhile, excursions to Athens are organized according to plan – in the photo of the temple of Zeus of the Olympics during the fires.
In Athens, the sky became orange because of fires
Greece often suffers from forest fires. In 2000, when large-scale fires occurred on the island of Samos, tourists drastically abandoned the trips, and most left Samos without waiting for the end of the holidays.
At the same time, the next season, the tourist flow to the island, according to various data, decreased from 20 to 50 percent.
In 2007, on the Peloponnese peninsula, on the island of Evbey, the regions of Attica and Arcadia killed 79 people. Then the Greek authorities have described the element of worst disaster for a century and a half.
An online dashboard at the Athens airport shows that on Tuesday, July 24, many flights are delayed. Among them – Air France, Olympic Air, SWISS.
Why the whole world in the fire
The main cause of extreme heat is global warming. Climate change will lead to warmer short-term periods becoming stronger and more frequent, warn scientists.
In addition, winds that move at high speed from west to east, at an altitude of eight to eleven kilometers above the surface of the earth, are also the cause of a heat abnormal.
According to a lecturer from Bristol University, Denn Mitchell, at the British edition of Guardian, given that air velocity is currently low, high pressure areas are maintained long time in one place.
The weather change also indicates an increase in sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic.
The situation where the combination of weak winds and the North Atlantic Oscillation occurred in 1976, but now, say scientists, the situation is worse since decades of global warming have led to an increase in the temperature in the world.
The Department of Climate Studies of the University of East Anglia notes that now any additional factor has an impact greater than half a century ago.
Carbon emissions, which are the cause of global warming, continue to grow.
The World Health Organization warns that due to climate change, episodic heat in the second half of the 21st century will occur every two years.
The WHO notes that more people have died of heat in recent decades than other extreme weather events.
Since 2030, due to disasters caused by climate change, 250,000 more people will die each year than they currently are, counted at the WHO.
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