QNADohaIn Implementation of the directives of HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, an equipped team from the Qatar International Search and Rescue Group of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) and a team from the Civil Defense of the Ministry of Interior headed to Greece on Sunday. They will  to participate in the search and rescue operations due to fires in the Hellenic Republic.

 

Three large wildfires churned across Greece on Saturday, with one threatening whole towns and cutting a line across Evia, the country’s second-largest island, isolating its northern part.Others engulfed forested mountainsides and skirted ancient sites, leaving behind a trail of destruction that one official described as “a biblical catastrophe”.Firefighters were fighting through the night to save Istiaia, a town of 7,000 in northern Evia, as well as several villages, using bulldozers to open up clear paths in the thick forest.The other dangerous fires were one in Greece’s southern Peloponnese Peninsula, near Ancient Olympia, and one in Fokida, in the Central Greece region north of Athens.The fire in Olympia moved east, away from the ancient site, threatening villages in a sudden flare-up on Saturday afternoon.North of Athens, the fire on Mount Parnitha – a national park with substantial forests – was still burning with occasional flare-ups.