Firefighters battle forest blaze in Thessaly

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Dozens of firefighters assisted by water-dropping planes battled a wood blaze that broke retired successful cardinal Greece Monday, arsenic authorities said a total 52 wildfires erupted implicit the weekend successful various parts of the country.

The occurrence work said the occurrence broke retired successful the day successful a wood adjacent Neochori successful Thessaly, and 39 firefighters with 14 occurrence engines and two water bombers were trying to incorporate it.

The occurrence work said the ample fig of wood fires recorded implicit the weekend was uncommonly precocious for the clip of year and underlined the request for heightened vigilance. It said astir were owed to negligence, peculiarly from farmers burning disconnected aged adust growth.

Greece is prone to destructive summertime wildfires that person accrued successful size, frequence and deadliness successful caller years owed to clime change, while the archetypal wildfires of the year are recorded successful aboriginal spring.

In 2018, 104 radical died when a blaze tore done the seaside town of Mati eastbound of Athens.