2024 Greek wildfires
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The 2024 Greek wildfires are a series of 30-kilometre-long lines of forest fires across the Attica region. This series of fires started on August 11 and lasted until August 14, 2024. The fire burned 100 houses to the ground. Media outlets referred to this as: “Greece’s worst wildfire of the year 2024.”[1]
The series of wildfires started with two large forest fires on August 11, 2024, at 03:00 P.M., 35 km north of Athens, near Varnavas.[2] Some of the fires in this series had flames were higher than 25 meters (80 feet).[3] The fires were ignited by hot and windy conditions in the area. The summer of 2024 is said to be Greece's hottest June and July on record.[4]
10 communities surrounding Varnava were evacuated to prevent wide-scale destruction.[citation needed]