2 hours ago: Greece fell into a fiery inferno

Reviews of weather events, natural disasters, astronomical phenomena and wildlife around the world The sky is in smoke, mass evacuations, people are being taken out of hospitals and monasteries: fires have approached the capital of Greece, Athens. Footage from Athens looks terrifying: fire is approaching the city, the sky is covered in smoke. Forests are burning in the capital Greek region of Attica. Residents of eleven settlements, hospitals, monks of two monasteries - Pentelis and St. Ephraim - have been evacuated. Storm winds are reducing the efforts of firefighters to nothing, although five hundred people, 17 planes and 15 helicopters were involved in extinguishing the fires. The fires were caused by intense heat. Dry, hot weather has set in on the Balkan Peninsula, with temperatures above 35°C. Yesterday, the fire broke out in the suburbs of Athens, not far from the city of Varnava. In the evening, it approached the suburb of Dionysos, a couple of dozen kilometers from the center of the Gre