Fire near the archaeological games site in Ancient Olympia continued to burn wooded areas, prompting the evacuations, but its treasures have escaped danger
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A resident calls the fire brigade as a fire burns in the yard of a house in the northern suburbs of Athens on Aug. 3, 2021 in Athens, Greece. People were evacuated from their homes after a wildfire reached residential areas of northern Athens, as record temperatures reached at 42 degrees Celsius.
The fire near the archeological games site in Ancient Olympia continued to burn wooded areas on Thursday, prompting the evacuation of more villages, but its treasures had escaped danger. “Nightmare with no end,” the Eleftheros Typos newspaper wrote on its front page on Thursday. “Fires Everywhere,” the left-wing Avgi said.
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