Mainalo

A 29-year-old man who has allegedly confessed to starting a wildfire in a pine forest in the central Peloponnese was remanded into pretrial custody by an investigating magistrate on Thursday.

A wildfire that broke out at three different points in a pine forest in Tripoli in the central Peloponnese on Monday was showing signs of improvement on Tuesday morning, the Fire Service has reported.

Cars are seen parked outside the Ostrakina Ski Center on Mount Mainalo in the northern Peloponnese on Thursday. Many parts of Greece have seen heavy snow, rain and freezing temperatures over the past few days, with the villages of Vilia, Erythres and Oinoi in western Attica snowbound and flooding in Karystos on Evia. [Panagiotis Bougiotis/ANA-MPA]

Residents of Levidi, a small town on Mount Mainalo in the northern Peloponnese, have set up blockades at the local landfill to prevent trucks from dumping trash brought from the city of Tripoli.

Locals came out in force summoned by the bells of a local church and have set up 24-hour sentries at the entrance of the landfill.