The flames have been raging in northern Greece for two weeks. After the surroundings of the city of Alexandroupoli, it is now the forest of Dadia, in the sector of the Evros river, on the Greek-Turkish border, which is the victim of the displacement of this fire. Nearly 600 firefighters are hard at work in a region where more than 80,000 hectares of vegetation have already gone up in smoke, according to the European Copernicus measurement system.
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With our special correspondent in Alexandroupoli, Joel Bronner
Fire, today referred to as biggest fire ever checked in » in the European Union, began its course in the forest region that surrounds the city of Alexandroupoli. On a hill on the edge of the city stands the small church of the prophet Elias.
Tassos Demerzopoulos moved there to show the extent of the damage. He looks angrily at the sight before him, a sight like ” stripped by the flames, which made him lose his colors.
” Do you see the helicopter over the sea there? This is because the fire in the area is still not overexplains this professional driver. Other than that, how do you want me to describe what we have in front of us? What can I say…it’s a disaster ? There is nothing left to describe, there are scorched lands, nothing else. Before, this area was part of the forest, there was a very beautiful landscape here, now, as you can see, the fire has ravaged everything. »
A fire so close to the city, with such intense smoke, that at the start of this long sequence of fires, this resident of the large city closest to the Greek-Turkish border claims not to have seen the Sun for two days.
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