Residents on the Greek Island of Evia were forced to flee over the weekend as wildfires raged unabated.
Harrowing video shows residents being evacuated by a ferry as flames could be seen overtaking the hillside, turning the sky a bright orange hue.
Wildfires have burned across Greece for the past week fueled by dry conditions and one of the country’s worst heatwave in three decades.
Evia, Greece’s second-largest island, has been one of the hardest-hit places and thousands of people have had to be evacuated by ferry, as can be seen in the below video released by MarineTraffic.com.
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December 16, 2024
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