General Secretariat for Civil Protection

The state assistance framework to support owners and tenants who lived in the apartment building on Arcadia Street in Abelokipoi, which was severely damaged by the bomb blast, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced at a meeting with them this morning at the Maximou Mansion.

Greece sent a new shipment of humanitarian aid to Lebanon on Thursday, organized by the Foreign Ministry and the ministries of Defense and Health, as well as the General Secretariat for Civil Protection.

According to a Foreign Ministry statement, the aid was transported on a Hellenic Air Force C-130 aircraft and included essential medical supplies and other critical items.

The fire that broke out Sunday morning in a wooded area in Xylokastro, Corinth, in which two men aged 35 and 40 died, is in remission.

Very high risk of fire (risk category 4) is forecast for today Saturday for the region of Attica and areas of the regions of Peloponnese, Western Greece, Central Greece, Thessaly and Crete.

The state and the General Secretariat for Civil Protection are on high alert as storm Atena has already started affecting the country. According to meteorological forecasts, it will continue until Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday, the first alerts from the 112 emergency service were sent to citizens’ mobile phones in Western Greece, Macedonia, and Thessaly.

Very high risk fire (risk category 4) is expected in the regions of Attica, Crete and areas of Central Greece, Peloponnese, North Aegean, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, according to the Fire Risk Prediction Map issued by the General Secretariat Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil

The European Commission has announced the start of production for 12 new Canadair DHC 515 firefighting aircraft, which will form the permanent European forest firefighting fleet (rescEU). These aircraft will be permanently stationed in Greece, Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

A yellow alert for a high risk of fire (risk category 3) has been issued for much of mainland and island Greece for today, Monday, August 19, according to the fire risk forecast map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection.

Authorities in Magnesia and the Sporades islands are on high alert for potential wildfires Thursday.

The General Secretariat for Civil Protection has classified Magnesia in Thessaly as high risk and the Northern Sporades Islands as very high risk. Firefighting units and municipal civil protection departments are prepared for immediate response.

As announced by the Municipality of Agia Paraskevi, following a decision by Mayor Yiannis Mylonakis, the closed gymnasium in Kontopouki (Dorieon 20 and Kanari) will be open from today and for as long as needed to assist in accommodating fire victims who have been displaced from their homes due to the severe wildfire in Attica and require temporary shelter.