Despite the efforts of firefighters, a wildfire in Greece has been burning for 11 days. The country has called on others in the EU for assistance with firefighters and aircraft.
The fire in the Alexandroupolis and Evros region - which first started on 19 August - was mainly concentrated deep in a forest near the border with Turkey, in an area difficult to access.
More than 81,000 hectares of land has been lost - an area larger than New York City - the European Union's Copernicus Emergency Management Service, which uses satellite imagery to provide mapping data.With resources pushed to their limits, Greece called on the help of other European countries, receiving 12 aircraft and hundreds of firefighters from across the continent.
Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Cyprus and the Czech Republic have sent firefighting aircraft under the EU's emergency response mechanism, with France and Spain set to follow.Janez Lenarcic, the top EU official for crisis management, said on Tuesday it was the bloc's largest aerial firefighting operation and"underscores our commitment to swift and effective collective action in times of crisis".
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