{"id":419742,"date":"2023-08-22T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=419742"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:36:47","slug":"wildfires-rage-in-greece-spain-and-italy-as-heatwave-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wildfires-rage-in-greece-spain-and-italy-as-heatwave-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires rage in Greece, Spain and Italy as heatwave spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece, (SONNA) – Hospital patients were evacuated onto a ferry in the Greek port city of Alexandroupolis on Tuesday away from a wildfire raging uncontrolled for a fourth day as a new heatwave hit southern Europe.<\/p>\n

Authorities urged residents to avoid the heat as France, Italy, Spain and elsewhere suffered hot, dry and windy conditions that scientists have linked to\u00a0climate change.<\/p>\n

Firefighters were also battling blazes in Spain and Italy.<\/p>\n

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In Alexandroupolis, in northeastern Greece, a ferry was turned into\u00a0a makeshift hospital\u00a0after 65 patients, including newborn babies, were evacuated from the University Hospital in the early hours.<\/p>\n

Ambulances also ferried patients away from a nearby clinic.<\/p>\n

Elderly patients lay on mattresses strewn across the cafeteria floor, paramedics attended to others on stretchers and a woman held a man resting on a sofa, an IV drip attached to his hand.<\/p>\n

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“I’ve been working for 27 years, I’ve never seen anything like this,” said nurse Nikos Gioktsidis. “Stretchers everywhere, patients here, IV drips there … it was like a war, like a bomb had exploded.”<\/p>\n

Several communities in the broader Evros region, near the border with Turkey, have been evacuated as authorities warned the risk of new fires remained high in the next few days.<\/p>\n

The burned body of a man believed to be a migrant was found in a rural area near Alexandroupolis on Monday, a local police official said.<\/p>\n

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“Weather conditions are extreme and will remain extreme for the coming days,” Fire Service spokesman Vassilis Varthakogiannis told ERT TV.<\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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