15 emergency alert messages issued already Friday as villages evacuated

The fire service has issued a spate of 112 emergency alert messages, with eight such messages being sent in less than two hours on Friday afternoon.

By 5.30 p.m., 15 emergency alert messages had been issued to residents in various parts of the country, including Attica; the Peloponnesian prefectures of Arcadia, Argolida, Achaea, and Messinia; as well as Larisa in Thessaly.

Nine of the 15 messages issued on Friday urged residents to evacuate their villages or settlements.

The Peloponnese regional governor, Dimitris Ptochos, told Kathimerini that there are "eight fire fronts are currently raging in the Peloponnese. There are four large ones: in Kranidi, where houses have burned, Megalopoli, Messinia and another one in Argolida. And four smaller ones, two of them in Corinthia."

In Messinia, a fire is raging in a forested area in the Oichalia municipality....