Sparta

Summer conditions will persist until Sunday, with temperatures rising to unseasonably high levels, reaching – and in some areas exceeding – 32°C. For example, Sparta and Thebes recorded 32.6°C yesterday.

A wildfire is currently ongoing in a forested area in the region of Kalyvia Socha, in the Municipality of Sparta, Laconia.

On the scene are 31 firefighters, with two ground teams from the 9th Special Disaster Response Unit (EMODE) and six vehicles, while four firefighting airplanes and one helicopter are conducting water drops.

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A wildfire broke out outside the city of Sparta on Tuesday. 

Some 28 firefighters with 12 vehicles were dispatched to the scene. Additionally, two firefighting airplanes are assisting the firefighting efforts from the air. 

According to the fire department, the fire rages outside the northeastern part of the city but without threatening houses.

A bus, driving from the eastern Peloponnesian city of Sparta to the village of Vamvakou in Laconia, fell into a ditch on Wednesday.

According to state broadcaster ERT, the bus driver lost consciousness and passed out.

Wildfires are burning large tracts of forest and farmland in Attica and neighboring regions for the third day in a row, while another two major blazes, on the island of Rhodes and near the southern town of Sparta, flared up Wednesday.

Despite the expected arrival of firefighters from the EU and Israel on Thursday, authorities are not optimistic that the blazes will be contained soon.

As Greek authorities continued to search, with diminished hopes, for victims and survivors of Wednesday's sinking of a trawler carrying as many as 750 migrants, conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis blasted criticism of the rescue operation, by opposition politicians and members of non-governmental organizations

Ex-agriculture minister Spilios Livanos, who was sacked yesterday, has apologised to "those who believe they were offended" by his posture during a recent meeting in Sparta, at a ceremony today in which he handed over his portfolio to incoming minister Yorgos Georgantas

The mayor of Sparta and former minister of ND, Petros Doukas, gave his own answer after the reactions to his unacceptable statements about the fires in Ilia in 2007.

Some part of 459-acre island, known as Kalem Island off the coast of the Aegean province of İzmir's Dikili district, was put up for sale for 400 million Turkish Liras ($54 million).

Located 500 meters from the Turkish mainland and right across the Greek island of Lesbos, Kalem is known as a frequent destination for daily tour boats in the Aegean Sea.