Valentini Papaioannou

Adapting to a new fire-prone reality

Published by Kathimerini on Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:01

Valentini Papaioannou did not know what to expect as she returned to her home in Palaia Penteli, northeast of Athens, on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 13. Everything had happened so fast when she'd left it 30 hours earlier with her husband and their 2-year-old son, running away from a wildfire that had spread onto their street.