A house burns in Varnava village during a wildfire, north of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. Many regions of the country are on high alert due to high temperatures and winds.

Tourists in Athens return to the streets after night of deadly wildfires just miles away Satellite images show the blaze has affected about 25,000 acres Rich Booth Tuesday 13 August 2024 08:00 BST ...

Greece’s civil protection authority said Italy was sending two water-dropping planes and the Czech Republic was sending 75 firefighters and 25 vehicles. Spain and Turkey were also finalising ...

Fleeing drivers clogged highways into Athens, hampering the firefighting effort. It has been the deadliest fire season to hit Greece in more than a decade when more than 60 people were killed in 2007.

The areas hit worst by wildfires in Greece are the seaside communities of Mati and Kineta. Mati is a popular summer camp and resort town about 21 miles east of Athens.

As the best-preserved Doric temple in Greece and the site of a Latin epitaph composed by Byron for a friend unlucky enough to die in Athens, the Theseion attracts a steady procession of visitors.