Greece: A 38-year-old man assisting in dousing a raging wildfire in the north of Athens has died, while over 40 others have been injured as devastating fires have continued to spread across Greece. Thousands left their homes near the Greek capital, which is cloaked in acrid smoke, and 600 fled Evia by boat.
On Friday, a man was killed by a falling electricity pylon near Athens, health officials said. Firefighters from France, Switzerland, Sweden, Cyprus and Romania have been deployed to assist Greece. Gale-force winds are forecast to fan the many blazes. Residents of Marathon, north-east of Athens, were told to head to the coast on Friday as wildfires spread along several fronts.
Fires continued to rage across the country for the fourth day on Friday in northern Athens, on Evia island, in Ilia prefecture and Mani in Peloponnese, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, destroying houses, businesses and burning thousands of hectares of forest land. Deputy Minister for Civil Protection and Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias said earlier in an emergency briefing that there were 56 active fire fronts in different parts of the country, stressing that the conditions were "extremely dangerous". Foreign officials from France, Spain, Kuwait, Jordan, Turkey, the US and China, among other countries around the world, have sent messages of solidarity to Greece.
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