• Comrade Rain@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Here in Greece we have raging wildfires for yet another summer, one enormous fire (30km 40km wide) raging so close to the capital the smoke has enveloped the sky in many parts of the city, and the lib government praises itself over its "quick reaction time". Very few precautions have been taken since last year, so now fire fighters are risking their lives to contain the crisis, working for more than 24h in a row, unfortunately without much success. Some buildings (mainly houses) have already been burnt by the fire, fortunately no casualties for now.

    Edits: added second photo, updated some info

    Yesterday's photo of the smoke from the National Observatory webcam

    Show An eerie photograph of a big cloud of smoke over Athens. No, this isn't on Mars.

    Today's photo, the flames near the National Observatory itself

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