Prevention key to batting fires, expert stresses

Plans for Greece's new civil protect mechanism appear to put too much emphasis on fighting fires rather than preventing them, warns Professor Johann Georg Goldammer, director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center based at Freiburg University and senior scientist at the Max Planck Society for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, who was invited by the previous government to lead a special committee in the wake of the deadly fire that devastated the village of Mati in eastern Attica in July 2018.

Kathimerini reached out to Goldammer as Greece's recently elected government prepares a new civil protection plan, which is currently in the public consultation phase.
Does the draft law on civil protection follow your recommendations as head of the special committee?

The draft law is in Greek and I was only sent an outline in English but I have discussed...