Firefighters are currently battling a blaze in Nea Artaki on Evia to prevent it from reaching residential areas Another fire on the island has been contained while a flare-up in the town of Markopoulo near Athens was swiftly brought under control coupled with temperatures nearing 40°C (104°F) have exacerbated the wildfire risk over the past fortnight Greece experienced its hottest June day on record prompting daily firefighting efforts against dozens of blazes A large fire is currently raging in Agios Vasilios Rethymnon has been placed on high alert for wildfires on Wednesday along with several other areas including Evia and the island of Crete Wildfires have posed a threat in Greece since the 1980s but the accelerating impacts of global warming are intensifying their severity This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Greece on Tuesday was battling a growing wildfire front that killed two and forced widespread evacuations in the second deadly wave of fires in a month Blazes burned unchecked in northeastern Greece the islands of Evia and Kythnos and the region of Boeotia north of Athens amid a dangerous mix of gale-force winds and temperatures of up to 41 degrees Celsius it's a similar situation to July," a fire department spokeswoman told AFP Late Monday an evacuation was ordered at the hospital of Alexandroupolis a northeastern Greek port city in an area where fires are raging for a fourth day The coastguard said it had moved 65 patients to a waiting ferry at the city harbour officials late Monday evacuated the industrial town of Nea Artaki where the fire has damaged poultry and pork farms The flames were also threatening the national park of Dadia where the body of a man believed to be an undocumented migrant was found late Monday An elderly shepherd had also been found dead in the Boeotia region earlier Monday Dadia is one of the most important protected areas in Europe offers an ideal habitat for rare birds and is home to the only breeding population of black vultures in the Balkans.  The European Union announced it was deploying two Cyprus-based firefighting aircraft and a Romanian firefighting team via the bloc's civil protection mechanism The very hot and dry conditions which increase the fire risk will persist until Friday a fire that started on July 18 and was fanned by strong winds ravaged almost 17,770 hectares (more than 43,000 acres) in 10 days in the south of Rhodes a popular tourist island in the southeastern Aegean Sea please register for free or log in to your account an electromagnetic aircraft launch system and several other innovations and it can carry over—75 aircraft of various types Regarding the presence of the American ship in Chania the Sectoral Organisation of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) “the presence of the aircraft carrier in the area is undesirable” repeating its position of “closing the foreign bases on the island.” at 6:30 pm in the square of the Municipal Market the Chania Peace Committee will hold a protest Photo source: Flash News READ MORE: Christmas nightmare in Evia: Pakistani mercilessly beat a man in front of his grandson in Nea Artaki Published: Invalid Date GREECE has been blighted -23 temperatures and snowfall as Europe is devastated by deadly winter storm that has killed 16 people and sparked travel chaos Those living in Athens awoke to the rare sight of snow as some of the city's most famous monuments became topped with white powder The Temple of Olympian Zeus and Acropolis of Athens became almost unrecognisable while neighbouring country Cyprus was also battered by heavy rain and snow also saw snowfall - Camlica Mosque on the Asian side of the Bosphorus was framed by a scattering of the white stuff But it's not all picturesque scenes - for some countries the conditions have been deadly Mass snowfall has plagued the Alps, forcing resorts to close more than 1,000 miles of ski slopes and 450 ski lifts. So far at least 16 people have been reported as dead across Europe as a result of the snow. And travel chaos has also been unleashed as hundreds of flights are due to be cancelled and delayed this week. Flights to and from Austria and Germany have been severely effected by the snow, with the Foreign Office warning travellers to check the status of their flights before making their way to the airport. Germany has experienced severe flight cancellations and delays over the last few days. The stormy weather has caused 120 flights from Munich Airport to be cancelled and delayed. Among the latest to lose their lives in the killer storm wasa woman who was trapped under an avalanche. Rescue workers fought to rescue her but failed to pull her to safety. In the highest peaks of the alps, a popular holiday destination for many at this time of year, 10ft of snow has settled. The past week has proved deadly for skiers, after a 28-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman who went missing while snowshoeing were found dead near Salzburg in central Austria. Today forty rescuers with dogs were still searching for two others who went missing while snowshoeing near Hohenberg in Lower Austria, Austrian news agency APA reported. There was also tragedy in Germany, where a 44-year-old skier died in Wackersberg, Bavaria, when he was hit by tree branches brought down by heavy snow, police said. And BBC Weather has issued a red warning for south-eastern parts of Germany and Austria where even more snow is set to fall. Austrian police said that a 16-year-old boy from Australia was killed in an avalanche in St. Anton am Arlberg as he was skiing with his family on Wednesday. In Slovakia, a 37-year-old Slovak man was killed by an avalanche in the Mala Fatra mountains. A 20-year-old woman died on Saturday after she was buried by an avalanche on the Teisenberg mountain range in Upper Bavaria, near the Austrian border. The total toll of those killed in stormy weather in Europe over the past week rose to 11 after a Swedish woman, 29, and three Finnish nationals aged 29, 32 and 36 were presumed dead after an avalanche near Tromsoe last Wednesday. In Austria, the Hochkar alpine road and the entire Hochkar skiing region have been closed because of the high risk of avalanches. Austrian authorities warned skiers not to go off the slopes and not drive their cars unless needed According to Sky News meteorologist Chris England a north to north-easterly wind was bringing "freezing air" from Europe's colder countries - Poland He said: "That'll mostly be coming over the cold land as well - unlike the UK where cold air moving in is generally warmed a bit by the sea." Meteorologists have predicted a further 10-40cm of fresh snow to fall in the region by Monday as across Europe emergency workers ready themselves for further rescue missions We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368 . You can WhatsApp us on 07810 791 502. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/ We danced until the sun rose over the teal waters of the Aegean and drank retsina mixed with Coca-Cola And we ate spit-roasted goat (there are two million goats on the island of Evia)."},"children":[]}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","attributes":{"value":"Evia is the second largest Greek island after Crete It faces the Aegean to the east and the Evian Gulf to the west."},"children":[]}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","attributes":{"value":"It’s a spiny the rural hinterland cross-hatched with juniper and olive groves Thirty years ago I wrote a book about a six-month Evian journey From here you can hike"},"children":[]},{"name":"paywall","children":[{"name":"text","attributes":{"value":" along the coast to Marmari on a path with views of the Petali islands but the heirs of those who built palatial villas here — Maria Callas sundry royals — are not permitted to own chunks of shoreline it is possible to catch a water taxi from Karystos to the islands and arrange for the driver to pick you up later."},"children":[]}]}]},{"name":"paywall","children":[{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"The air smells of lemon thyme and pink judas trees and poppies spread down to the water Eagles and black falcons circle in the sky It is a Greece recognisable from the pages of "}},{"name":"italic","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"The Iliad"}}]},{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"."}}]},{"name":"ad","children":[]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"Behind Marmari Ochi is the home of one of the island’s many dragon houses ancient stone structures built long before Homer wrote about Greeks rowing their triremes on their mission to Troy."}}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"A bus trip up the island reveals how the geography has fostered the development of a series of regions which is joined to the mainland by a bridge."}}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"Ferries run to and from Evia’s west coast from Easter to October Skopelos and Skiathos."}}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"Overall the island has changed less than I have cats stalk the tavernas and the gathering blue of Karystos Bay in the hour before sunset is as it has always been."}}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"As for the wedding the bride’s mother and aunts danced around her as she sat while guests showered her with banknotes."}}]},{"name":"inlineAd1","children":[]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"The toasts wished the new couple well "}},{"name":"italic","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"sta dika sou"}}]},{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":" I wouldn’t mind being a goatherd’s wife."}}]},{"name":"paragraph","children":[{"name":"bold","children":[{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"Need to know"}}]},{"name":"break","children":[]},{"name":"text","children":[],"attributes":{"value":"Sara Wheeler was a guest of Exodus which offers an eight-day Mountains & Villages of Evia tour from £1,179pp four picnics and five dinners (020 3733 6626; 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