By Angeliki Koutantou CHIOS, Greece (Reuters) -Hundreds of firefighters battled for a third day to contain wildfires on the Greek island of Chios on Tuesday that have torn through swathes of forest ...

More than 400 firefighters were battling five wildfires on Chios in the Aegean Sea, which authorities are investigating as ...

A state of emergency has been declared on the Greek island of Chios where five separate wildfires are burning and being fanned by strong winds.Residents in 17 communities have been evacuated and an ...

She’d been smoking,” a Greek official said of a Georgian woman who was arrested after a blaze tore through 11,000 acres of Chios this week.

Firefighters are battling the flames which have been fanned by strong winds, with homes evacuated and power cuts reported.

The wildfire on Chios, which consumed approximately 2,500 hectares of forest, low vegetation, and arable land, has now been contained.

Greek authorities have sent new evacuation notifications for two areas near the main town on the island of Chios as firefighters struggle to control a major wildfire ...

ATHENS - Greece will send more than 170 more firefighters on Monday to reinforce teams battling wildfires on the Greek island of Chios for a second day, as winds further whipped up the blaze, bringing ...

Several villages have been ordered to evacuate after the entire firefighting force of Chios faced being overwhelmed.

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One local with family in Chios, editor of Neos Kosmos Sotiris Hatzimanolis, said that the locals on Chios are “frustrated and ...

Firefighters battled for a third day to contain wildfires on the Greek island of Chios that have torn through swathes of forest and farmland and forced hundreds of villagers to evacuate, after it ...