One person dead.
Homes and buildings charred.
Huge tracts of forestland destroyed, the burned area leaving a thick scar covering nearly 25,000 acres northeast of Athens, the Greek capital, according to European satellite images.
Although the Greek authorities said on Tuesday that the threat to Athens posed by major wildfires that tore through its northern suburbs a day earlier had diminished, the damage caused has been “massive,” Vasilios Vathrakogiannis, the country’s fire service spokesman, said in a telephone interview.
And the true extent of the damage cannot be accurately assessed until the fires are completely doused, he said.
Persons:
Vasilios Vathrakogiannis
Locations:
Athens