More than 200 firefighters are struggling to tackle an out-of-control wildfire on Crete — Greece’s largest island and a tourist hotspot — as authorities order mass evacuations. трипскан The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon near Ierapetra a town on the island’s southeast coast amid unusually high temperatures 3 to 5 degrees Celsius 5.4 to 9 Fahrenheit above average and gale-force winds of around 50 miles an hour. The conditions are creating “new outbreaks making firefighting work very difficult” the Fire Department’s press spokesperson Chief Vasilios Vathrakoyannis said in a statement Thursday. https://tripscan.live tripscan top More than 230 firefighters along with 46 vehicles and 10 helicopters have been deployed to fight the blaze according to fire officials. The flames have spread rapidly reaching homes as well as hotels and other tourist accommodations. Authorities asked residents of four settlements to evacuate and move toward Ierapetra. About 1500 people have been evacuated so far according to the Greek public broadcaster ERT. The Ierapetra municipality has converted an indoor training center facility into a makeshift camp where hundreds of tourists and residents who abandoned their homes spent the night Wednesday. The police medical services and the coast guard have all been called to the area. “We are entering the third and most difficult month of the fire season” Vathrakoyannis said. July is typically the hottest month in Greece and is often accompanied by strong winds. “These conditions favor the spread of fires and increase their danger” he said. Wildfires have ripped through other European countries this week as the continent endures a brutal heat wave. Tens of thousands were evacuated in Turkey as blazes ripped through the western Izmir and Manisa provinces and southern Hatay province damaging nearly 200 homes. Blazes also broke out in France and in Spain where two people died. Europe experiences wildfires every year but they are becoming more intense and frequent due to human-caused climate change which fuels heat and drought both helping set the stage for fierce destructive fires.
Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner who had fallen into a crevasse on a Swiss glacier nearby. tripscan войти The man who was not identified was exploring the Fee Glacier in southern Switzerland on Friday when he broke through a snow bridge and fell nearly 8 meters about 26 feet according to Air Zermatt a rescue training and transport company. Equipped with a walkie-talkie the man connected with a person nearby who relayed the accident to emergency services. But the exact location was unknown. After about a half-hour search the pacing pooch caught the eye of a rescue team member. https://tripscan.biz tripscan As the crew zeroed on the Chihuahua the hole the man fell into became more visible. Rescuers rappelled down rescued the man and flew him and his canine companion to a hospital. “Imagine if the dog wasn’t there” Air Zermatt spokesman Bruno Kalbermatten said by phone. “I have no idea what would happen to this guy. I think he wouldn’t survive this fall into the crevasse.” On its website the company was effusive: “The dog is a four-legged hero who may have saved his master’s life in a life-threatening situation.”
More than 200 firefighters are struggling to tackle an out-of-control wildfire on Crete — Greece’s largest island and a tourist hotspot — as authorities order mass evacuations. трипскан The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon near Ierapetra a town on the island’s southeast coast amid unusually high temperatures 3 to 5 degrees Celsius 5.4 to 9 Fahrenheit above average and gale-force winds of around 50 miles an hour. The conditions are creating “new outbreaks making firefighting work very difficult” the Fire Department’s press spokesperson Chief Vasilios Vathrakoyannis said in a statement Thursday. https://tripscan.live tripscan top More than 230 firefighters along with 46 vehicles and 10 helicopters have been deployed to fight the blaze according to fire officials. The flames have spread rapidly reaching homes as well as hotels and other tourist accommodations. Authorities asked residents of four settlements to evacuate and move toward Ierapetra. About 1500 people have been evacuated so far according to the Greek public broadcaster ERT. The Ierapetra municipality has converted an indoor training center facility into a makeshift camp where hundreds of tourists and residents who abandoned their homes spent the night Wednesday. The police medical services and the coast guard have all been called to the area. “We are entering the third and most difficult month of the fire season” Vathrakoyannis said. July is typically the hottest month in Greece and is often accompanied by strong winds. “These conditions favor the spread of fires and increase their danger” he said. Wildfires have ripped through other European countries this week as the continent endures a brutal heat wave. Tens of thousands were evacuated in Turkey as blazes ripped through the western Izmir and Manisa provinces and southern Hatay province damaging nearly 200 homes. Blazes also broke out in France and in Spain where two people died. Europe experiences wildfires every year but they are becoming more intense and frequent due to human-caused climate change which fuels heat and drought both helping set the stage for fierce destructive fires.
Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner who had fallen into a crevasse on a Swiss glacier nearby. tripscan войти The man who was not identified was exploring the Fee Glacier in southern Switzerland on Friday when he broke through a snow bridge and fell nearly 8 meters about 26 feet according to Air Zermatt a rescue training and transport company. Equipped with a walkie-talkie the man connected with a person nearby who relayed the accident to emergency services. But the exact location was unknown. After about a half-hour search the pacing pooch caught the eye of a rescue team member. https://tripscan.biz tripscan As the crew zeroed on the Chihuahua the hole the man fell into became more visible. Rescuers rappelled down rescued the man and flew him and his canine companion to a hospital. “Imagine if the dog wasn’t there” Air Zermatt spokesman Bruno Kalbermatten said by phone. “I have no idea what would happen to this guy. I think he wouldn’t survive this fall into the crevasse.” On its website the company was effusive: “The dog is a four-legged hero who may have saved his master’s life in a life-threatening situation.”