Greek island wildfire rages for fourth straight day
The Peninsula
Athens: Greek firefighters struggled Wednesday to contain a wildfire that has destroyed more than 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of land on the island...
Athens: Greek firefighters struggled Wednesday to contain a wildfire that has destroyed more than 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of land on the island of Chios over the past four days.
Chios, in the northern Aegean Sea, is Greece's fifth-largest island and is currently facing five separate fire outbreaks.
"The fire has not yet been contained but it is decreasing" in activity, a fire department official told AFP.
The fire service said around 400 firefighters, 85 vehicles, four water bombers and seven helicopters had been deployed, with "sporadic outbreaks" remaining mainly in the south of the island.
A Georgian woman, working as a house cleaner, was arrested on Tuesday after admitting to having thrown a cigarette butt on the ground that allegedly triggering the fire, the Greek news agency ANA and the fire service reported.
