Blaze

A 30-year-old man who has allegedly confessed to deliberately setting several fires - some of them extremely destructive - in different parts of Messinia in the southwestern Peloponnese was remanded in custody on Monday. 

Perched over the gaping roof of Notre-Dame, a crane stands idle above the silent Paris cathedral, where repair work has ground to a halt one year after the monstrous blaze that nearly destroyed one of the world's most revered monuments.

Greece's fire service on Tuesday boosted a unit sent to fight a blaze which broke out on Monday night in a forested area of Xylokastro, at the regional unit of Corinthia.

Stage directors, actors and musicians who have homes in the East Attica towns that were hit by last summer's deadly wildfires will be holding a show commemorating the July 23, 2018, event, which cost the lives of more than 100 people.

A 13-month-old girl died in a blaze that broke out early Thursday morning in an apartment in the seaside suburb of Varkiza, southwestern Attica.

The baby girl was discovered by firemen who entered the third-floor apartment on Eridos Street after being alerted to the blaze by local residents.

She was immediately transferred to hospital where doctors confirmed her death.

A study presented on Wednesday on eastern Attica's deadly wildfires in July found that the hour and a half between when the blaze started on the slopes of Mount Penteli and when it reached Mati on the coast was ample to order the residents of the seaside town to go down to the seashore in an orderly manner.

As an investigation into last month's deadly wildfires on the outskirts of Attica deepens - with evidence pointing to shortcomings by rescue services and authorities but also the negligence of residents - Kathimerini has obtained video footage showing the moment the blaze broke out on the afternoon of July 23. 

Greek coast guard officials with the help of divers on Monday pulled an unidentified body out of the water near Kokkino Limanaki in east Attica, an area ravaged by a deadly blaze a week ago.

According to the coast guard, the body was transferred to the port of Rafina.

More than 20 firemen, a water-dumping airplane and two helicopters were trying to put out a blaze in a park in the middle of a residential part of northern Athens on Friday afternoon.

Fire fighters found a man around 60 years old dead in Piraeus, as they fought a blaze in a first-floor apartment on Friday afternoon.

The fire started under unknown circumstances at a flat on Fillelinon Street, in central Piraeus.