Out of control fire seethes close to Athens, undermines homes

Common security specialists began preparatory clearings in certain pieces of the Voula and Glyfada districts around 20 kilometers from Athens focus.
A fierce blaze seethed on the edges of Athens on Saturday, compromising homes and electrical cables, a fire unit official said.

Fanned areas of strength for by, the fire immediately spread across the inclines of Mount Hymettus which neglects the Greek capital, sending thick billows of smoke over the southern rural areas.

Common security specialists began preparatory clearings in certain pieces of the Voula and Glyfada districts around 20 kilometers from Athens focus.

“The breezes are extremely serious, we have harm to a couple of houses and a few vehicles, no wounds,” said the fire detachment official who declined to be named.

In excess of 100 firemen supported by six firefighting airplane and 4 helicopters battled the burst that began after late morning in the city’s suburb of Glyfada, the fire unit said.

A spate of fierce blazes singed around 300,000 sections of land of timberland and bushland in various pieces of Greece the previous summer, in the midst of the nation’s most obviously terrible heatwave in 30 years.