ATHENS — Scores of Greek villagers were evacuated early Thursday as a forest fire raged overnight around the protected wildlife habitat of Mount Geraneia, the fire department said, with no injuries immediately reported.
Six villages and two monasteries were evacuated after the fire broke out on Wednesday evening near the village of Skinos on the Gulf of Corinth, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) west of Athens, a spokesman told AFP.
Fire department chief Stefanos Kolokouris said reinforcements had been rushed in from around the country to contain the blaze.
“The situation is clearly better now,” Kolokouris told Skai TV.
“It’s a large fire in a pine forest (and the) terrain …
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