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A fire broke out late on Wednesday evening on Lower Olympus, at an altitude of about 800 to 900 meters and is currently...

The Fire Brigade has set a forest fire that broke out in Agios Stefanos shortly after 11am under control. Due to the strong winds...

A fire which broke out in a recycling plant in Aspropyrgos and which carried on for four days has been arrested and will...

The explosion at a reservoir operated by Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE) on the 8th of May appears to have been caused by ‘human error’...

The Mayor of Halandri Simos Roussos expressed his anger and sorrow at the serious damages that were caused to the...

Five of the six employees who were injured in a fire that broke out at the refinery in Aspropyrgos on Friday morning remain in a...

A major fire broke out at a refinery reservoir in Aspropyrgos early on Friday morning, with thick black smoke visible in Western...

A major fire broke out shortly after midnight in a wallpaper business based in an apartment building in Votanikos, which resulted...

A hotel near the railway station in Thessaloniki had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in a room on the fourth floor, shortly after...

The migrant detention center at Amygdaleza has caused controversy and tension, with riot police and the fire brigade being...

The fires onboard the Norman Atlantic have finally been extinguished, allowing teams of specialists to enter the cargo and...

A fire broke out on Sunday morning at the Thermal Power Plant of Ptolemaida in the north of Greece which resulted in the...

A fire broke out in a basement at the USA’s embassy in Athens on Sunday evening, but was quickly extinguished before it could...

The Fire Brigade is trying to tackle a major fire that broke out in the Chandra region near Sitia in Crete, which reportedly broke...

A short-circuit appears to be the cause of a fire that broke out in the basement of the “Metaxas” hospital in Piraeus at about 2:30 in the afternoon on Sunday. The fire damaged hospital consumables and while some patients and staff members had to be transferred to other hospital wings due to the smoke, there […]

The Fire Brigade was called out to extinguish a fire that broke out in an apartment in Marousi, the northern suburb of Athens, at about 3.30 on Tuesday morning. Luckily the two tenants managed to escape in time, while the fire destroyed the apartment,. According to ANT1, the fire was likely caused by an unattended […]

The Fire Brigade has announced that it is facing two huge fires that broke out in Kefalonia and Rhodes. A fire broke out in the Karouza area on Kefalonia earlier on Thursday morning, for which the Fire Brigade has committed 14 fire fighters with 7 vehicles, six fire fighters on foot and three aircraft. The […]

The Minister of Public Order Nikos Dendias has enforced a curfew in forests where there is a high risk of a fire breaking out (category 4). This measure will be in effect until Sunday, the 18th of August, unless the conditions change. According to the General Secretary of Civil Protection, the curfew affects forests in […]

The power grid in Santorini has not yet recovered, after an explosion and subsequent fire at a DEI generator on Tuesday afternoon caused an electricity black out. DEI’s spokesperson Kimon Stergiotis attributed the new black out to “an unexpected capacitor failure”. The Minister of the Interior Yannis Michelakis and the Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni […]

A huge fire that broke out at Varybobi and Thrakomakedones yesterday is now under control. According to the Fire Brigade the fire broke out late on Monday evening, just before 11pm, in a forest area of Varybobi in the Municipality of Acharnes. The Fire Brigade’s aircraft are trying to restrict the fire before it spreads […]