Firefighters control main front of forest fire near Athens

By Agence France-Presse

May 23, 2021 1:52 pm

ATHENS: Hundreds of Greek firefighters battled a forest fire near Athens for a third day on Saturday but brought the main front of the blaze under control as weather conditions improved.

The fire, on the Geraneia mountain range, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of the capital, is 'one of the biggest in the past 20 to 30 years, and has come early in the season,' fire chief Stefanos Kolokouris told ANT1 television.

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