Devastating wildfires in Greece will ravage more than 150,000 hectares (370,600 acres) by the end of the summer, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis estimated Thursday, blaming the climate crisis for the disaster.
Like many countries around the Mediterranean, Greece has been plagued by wildfires since the start of the summer, with 26 people dying in forest fires fanned by dry, windy and hot conditions.
A European Commission spokesman said Tuesday that the Dadia blaze is"the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU". It has burned more than 81,000 hectares to date, according to the European observatory Copernicus, an area larger than New York City.According to experts, the Dadia fire in Evros has already caused"an ecological and economic disaster" in one of the country's poorest departments.
Faced with criticism from left-wing opposition parties for the lack of coordination between the authorities to extinguish the fires, Mitsotakis reiterated that the"mega fires", like the one in Evros, were mainly due to"extreme conditions" and"the climatic crisis". "After four years of governance, there is no time or space for excuses," said Socratis Famellos, head of Syriza's parliamentary group."You left the country unprepared and defenseless against this danger."
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