More than 2,000 evacuated on Corfu island due to forest fire

More than 2,000 evacuated on Corfu island due to forest fire Local authorities appealed to residents to provide rooms with beds for evacuated people — mainly families with children and elderly citizens were transferred to them. The rest were accommodated in city buildings: at train stations, in the city hall and in the theater. A forest fire has been raging in Greece for several days, about 30 thousand people were evacuated from the island of Rhodes earlier. The natural disaster is not calming down and is spreading to new territories. Earlier, the former defense minister urged the authorities to seek help from Russia, so that the country could provide aircraft to extinguish the fires. Источник: Readovka World