
Greece battles wildfire close to capital as summer season’s first heatwave hits
Coastal blaze triggers evacuation orders, days after state of emergency declared over fires on Aegean island of Chios. A quick-moving wildfire has engulfed vacation houses and forest land on a bit of the Greek shoreline simply 40km (25 miles) south of the capital, Athens. Greater than 100 firefighters, supported by two dozen firefighting plane, battled…