Greece Wildfires: Winds Fan 2 New Blazes Outside of Athens

Greece Wildfires: Winds Fan 2 New Blazes Outside of Athens
An helicopter drops water over a fire in Siderina village helicopter about 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of Athens, Greece, on Aug. 16, 2021. Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo
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ATHENS, Greece—Fanned by strong winds, two new big wildfires erupted Monday in hard-hit Greece, triggering evacuation alerts for villages southeast and northwest of Athens—only days after blazes consumed large tracts of forest north of the Greek capital.

Greece has been roiled by hundreds of wildfires this month. Other Mediterranean countries—Turkey, Italy, Algeria, and Spain among them—have suffered similar problems.