In Greece, firefighters on Sunday continue to fight fires on the island of Evia, where thousands of hectares burned and hundreds of houses destroyed.
Thousands of people have already been evacuated from the island and the evacuation continues.
Fires are also raging in the Peloponnese, but fires in the Athens area have subsided somewhat.
Greece and Turkey have been fighting devastating fires for almost two weeks as the region continues for the largest heat wave in recent decades.
The fires in Greece have so far killed two people and killed eight in Turkey.
On the island of Evia, about 260 Greek firefighters and 200 firefighters from Ukraine and Romania are fighting the flames. Seven aircraft and dozens of fire engines are used to extinguish the flames.
A firefighter told Eleftheros Typos that the heat generated by the fires was so great that the water used to extinguish the flames evaporated into the air.
The fires on Evia Island began on August 3, and local officials criticized the government for not doing enough to protect people and their homes from the devastating fires.
In the past ten days, 56,655 hectares have been burned in Greece, according to data compiled by the European Forest Fire Information System.-
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