Authorities closed the national motorway, the Acropolis and other ancient sites
Homes burned down in Athens amid wildfires which caused the closure of part of the national motorway.
More than 100 wildfires have burned across Greece in the last couple of days, fuelled by the country’s worst heatwave in three decades. One of the fires sent smoke over the capital and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes to avoid the fire near Tatoi, a forest area 12 miles north of Athens.
Authorities also closed the Acropolis and other ancient sites during afternoon hours as temperatures reached 42C.Officials described the heatwave as the most intense in more than 30 years. As many as 104 firefighters with 35 vehicles and nine aircraft were battling the blaze in the Varympompi suburb of Tatoi near Parnitha mountain in the scorching weather.
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