[ April 23, 2024 ]
The death toll has risen to 80, but there are fears the final number will reach over 100.
Hundreds more are injured, with at least nine in intensive care. About 1,000 homes have been destroyed
Emergency services have reported being inundated with calls from desperate relatives searching for missing loved ones.
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My guess: arson jihad. The migrants have been setting fire to the camps for months.
At least 74 people have died and scores more injured as wildfires tore through woodland and villages around the Greek capital, Athens, local officials said. The death toll rose sharply on Tuesday after 26 bodies were found near the harbour town of Rafina, according to Red Cross workers and the region’s vice mayor, Girgos Kokkolis.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared three days of national mourning.
According to officials, at least 187 people, including 23 children, were injured in the fires, which damaged structures, disrupted major transport links and sent people fleeing their homes.
In Aftermath of Greek Fires, Suspicion Combines With Grief and Recrimination
By Jason Horowitz
NEOS VOUTZAS, Greece — The first fire alarm sounded in Kineta, a town an hour west of Athens, the capital, at 12:30 p.m. on Monday. Then, at 4:57 p.m. the authorities received calls on their 199 hotline reporting flames near Rafina, east of the capital.
Just about an hour later, the wildfire had reached Neos Voutzas, to the northeast, then powered by gale-force winds, moved “like a lava flow” down the hill to the seaside town of Mati, fire officials said.
Greeks on Wednesday were still piecing together one of the nation’s worst disasters in recent memory. But many were asking how so many scattered fires had broken out in so short a span and spread with such fatal velocity. Suspicion of arson combined with grief and recrimination as shattered Greeks sifted through the ruins of fires that killed at least 81 people.
Officials and residents braced for the toll to climb still higher as rescue workers searched for an undetermined number of people feared dead among as many as 2,500 burned homes.
“Those fires are not so innocent,” Nikos Toskas, Greece’s minister of public order and citizen protection, said on Monday, apparently suspicious of the proliferation of so many small fires.
Firefighters were still putting out smoldering areas as Greece suffered a fatal combination of scorching 100-degree temperatures and severe drought that turned its hillside forests into kindling. The strongest winds in eight years rained burning pines down like missiles as the fires spread.
An expected investigation into the cause of the fires will not begin until all of them are out, a fire brigade spokesman said. But Greeks speculated that the fires could have been started on purpose by landowners eager to clear protected forestland for development, and residents and officials disagreed as to whether an evacuation was ever ordered.
For decades, illegally built homes in wooded areas have raised concerns even as the government, desperate for cash in the wake of the 2010 debt crisis, allowed owners to pay light fines to enter into regulation. The disregard for rules and regulations that often has plagued Greece may have contributed to a disaster that not everyone is convinced was natural.
Marathon Avenue, the area’s major thoroughfare and the route dating to the road run by the ancient messenger, is now spotted with companies like Easy Home, which sells prefabricated houses to Athenians hungry for an affordable vacation house by the sea.
Closer to the coast, more stores sell cinder blocks, cords of wood, fireplaces and outdoor furniture supplies. Many of the burned houses tucked into the woods or on small ravines had the structure of those prefabricated, and sometimes illegally constructed, houses.
“It’s obvious that if you build a house in a forest, you may have a problem,” said Dimitris Papaspiropoulos, 49, who checked on his vineyards off the avenue near Rafina. He pointed out a house he said was illegally built up the scorched road. “If they keep building houses they will keep having problems.”
Kaiti Milioni, 55, who has a summer house in Mati, blamed poor urban planning for the disaster.
“There is no street or town planning, there aren’t any proper roads, most of the houses were built in the 60s, these houses should have been demolished and built again from scratch,” Ms. Milioni said. “We’ve been making these demands to the Marathon municipality for years, but we never received a response.”
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45 Comments
5 years ago
this was my first thought, and on right on queue, the democrat-muslim media refused to write one sentence about the cause of the fire. greece doesn’t have wildfires like this near resorts; this was obviously a muslim hit.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
The video is not realistic. These “refugees” need to make THEIR country great again. It takes effort and hard work. Why can’t they do that in THEIR country? Islam is totally incompatible with U.S. culture. There is a huge difference in comparing people that came to the U.S. through Ellis Island and these “refugees”.
To come to the U.S. LEGALLY you had to be disease free. You needed a sponsor to be sure you were financially taken care of and NOT BY THE GOVERNMENT AND TA PAYERS. Today they come here to be taken care of by the government and expect it. There is NO common culture. We started out as a Judeo Christian nation. We had common ground. We have no common ground with values and beliefs with Muslims and never will!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You will be a Muslim yourself or headless corpse. Islam is taking over the degenerate Western civilization and degenerating white people. You are too brainwashed to be able to resist and fight. Only Evangelicals have a chance if the cede from the United Caliphates of America-the UCA!
5 years ago
Reply to
Alex
LOL!
YOU hope that is the profile of those in the west.
You will be shocked to know that the opposite of what you state is true.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I hope you r right. But I am so bitter that you do not revolt against your elitists who sold their souls and your countries for one gold piece or just out of hope to be viziers in the caliphate that I write nonsense trying to get some irritation from you. In the US it is more hopeful. If TRUMP survives this onslaught of white converts to ISLAM like the CIA Brennan and Hussein gangs of black Muslims and white traitors there is hope.
Join Farage and Bannon. They are leaders; before they are Novichoked by your PM June.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
Agree. If you even mention possibility of muslim arson attack based on ISIS/Al-qaeda calling on devout Muslims to light fires to iinfidel homes and forest …you are called “racist” “islamophobe” by Left/Liberal pro-jihadi paid politicians/media.
Finally Vatican Bishop confesses: “Senior Catholic officials are being paid off by George Soros to promote mass Muslim migration into Europe”https://tinyurl.com/y7hllebo
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
I have wondered about the fires in California.
I’d bet ILLEGALS had a hand in setting them….They have nothing to lose.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You have doubts about it? These are people who invaded America and hate it. Invasion by barbarians meeting zero resistance. Call to arms. What for do you have rifles in your homes?
5 years ago
Reply to
Alex
Again, you speak for snowflakes not real Americans.
I take it you feel very frustrated…..
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Many years ago, for two Summers, I worked for the Forest Service. We were hired primarily to fight forest fires. Every fire I was on was caused by lightening.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I agree with you. My point was that most/many of the fires today are man-made. I have believed for some time how easy it is to disrupt a society by setting fires, which really isn’t that hard.
4 years ago
Reply to
Keith1941
I don’t believe most fires are man made, did you know the California started because of PG&E. They received several calls for a women who just happen to live where the fire started that she saw her electric pole near her property arcing for several weeks before the fire they never came out to inspect that problem, with it being so dry and the trees and bush right there it started that fire.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
What lightening does not strike anymore. Hmm I find that strange. Most fires in rural areas are started by lightening or farm equipment.
5 years ago
I hope it is not who we all think it is (but sadly it probably is).
5 years ago
1. Islamic terrorism will automatically be ruled out.
2. Even if the perp is caught and he is muslim it will be a mental problem; Islam had nothing to do with it.
3. The authorities will never find a motive for the arson.
4. The citizens will be warned about islamophobia (actually islamo-realism) with any reprisal resulting in long jail sentences.
5. More muslim invaders will be invited.
5 years ago
There is now a very fast-moving wildfire threatening hundreds of homes in and around Idyllwild, California, southwest of Palm Springs, that everyone is reporting was set deliberately by a man throwing flares from his car — who is in custody.
5 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
32-Year-Old Arrested, Accused of Setting Destructive Cranston Fire in Idyllwild
“Leave the area immediately,” a USFS Twitter post advised.
By Staff and City News Service
Published at 1:06 PM PDT on Jul 25, 2018 | Updated 51 minutes ago
A 32-year-old man from Temecula was arrested on suspicion of arson Wednesday night after he was accused of setting multiple fires, one of which burned thousands of acres in the San Bernardino National Forest, destroyed homes and forced thousands to flee.
Brandon N. McGlover was arrested on suspicion of five counts of arson to wildland after the Cranston Fire erupted earlier the same day.
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McGlover was also accused of setting several other fires Wednesday in the southwest Riverside County area and along Highway 74.
5 years ago
There is now video on KNBC 4 — nbcla.com — of the perp who was seen throwing lit flares from his car near Idyllwild, California, southwest of Palm Springs, that set off the huge and fast-moving fire that is threatening hundreds of homes.
The guy is definitely black and/or muslim-looking.
When we learn that he’s an obama immigration lottery winner, can we hang obama?
5 years ago
Some recent Northern California wildfires with losses of hundreds of homes are now being blamed on Pacific Gas & Electric for not trimming the trees near its power lines!
There’s no evidence that PG&E didn’t trim the trees near its power lines or that trees touching power lines was the cause of the fires! It’s just a theory Cal Fire is going with.
5 years ago
Civilized countries need to invest more in fire-fighting and fire-prevention, because of the threat of arson-jihad.
5 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
How about not accepting more MUSLIMS?
Talk about a cost savings!!!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Civilised countries need to invest more in border control and bring the corrupt politicians to a Nürnberg style Court.
5 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
There are no civilized Western countries any more. Either conquered by Islam or being conquered. The instant the Christianity became corrupted as it happened prior and during WW2 and Hitler fellow who had been greatly captivated by Islam and as soon as you exterminated Jews your fate had been doomed. Now the last stand is America. But Trump haters are automatically acting as the slaves of Islam and there is no chance that Trump will win. After him America will be sliding down the slope very fast.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alex
Obviously you are not a Christian….
You do realize that Trump is our President?
He wasn’t supposed to win either…
5 years ago
Strange that dictator Erdogan who wants Greece to be part of his new Ottoman empire did not provide assistance.
5 years ago
Reply to
jkarna
Greece isn’t a Muslim country. Muslims will NOT be charitable to non Muslims.
It is against their religion to help non Muslims.
5 years ago
Reply to
jkarna
After the kind of “assistance” the Turkish muslums provided to Cyprus I don’t think Greece would want any.
5 years ago
Fires breaking out so quickly and spreading with such ‘ferocity’ causing massive damage in a short amount of time. Hmmm…..very characteristic of the fires in Northern California last year.
5 years ago
If they have not started these fires, then they will – as in the past – rejoice and say things like it was Allah’s revenge or such. But I think Pamela’s theory is more than plausible. Sweden, another country with a high “muslim migrant” population is also experiencing the worst wild-fires in many years.
Islamic “gratitude” to the infidel ? Making their host countries into another Sahara Desert?
5 years ago
How can anyone be shocked or even surprised by this? Import people that want to burn your civilization to the ground, then act surprised when the fire starts.
Every day there are fresh Islamist atrocities. Every day authorities conceal or excuse them or pretend ignorance regarding motive. Those who are being paid to protect the public and enforce the laws turn a blind eye when they can. Politicians openly collaborate with Muslim Brotherhood front groups to undermine Western Civilization.
We are at war. Just because Jihadi murderers aren’t yet blowing nerve gas through your city, breaking down your door, killing your dog, burning your books, art and music while raping your family members, don’t deceive yourself.
This is war. The supine inaction and accommodation of the Islamic invasion by our elected public officials and those who voted for them puts them squarely in the enemy camp.
Westerners welcoming Muslim invaders is like geese and turkeys voting for Christmas.
5 years ago
And he shall be a WILD MAN!
Genesis 16:12
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Good point!
Ishmael is believed to be the father of the Arab nations.
Ishmael is not part of Christ’s bloodline.
Genesis 16:7-16
[7] And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
[8] And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
[9] And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
[10] And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
[11] And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
[12] And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
[13] And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
[14] Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
[15] And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
[16] And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
5 years ago
Global warming!/sarc
5 years ago
Just read the al Qaeda manual on terrorism: they put not a few pages on arson, especially forest and crop fires, pollution of water supplies (dumping animal corpses is a favourite there) and anything that damages economies. This is totally in keeping with jihad which mans TOTAL war and NO innocents. The world will be a far better place when ALL muslims are removed from it. But I think that any person who is capable of thinking and isn’t brainwashed can work that one out by herself.
5 years ago
Arson, that was mmy first thought too; revenge by muslims for not being allowed to travel to the destinations in Europe of their choice!
Politicians and the medias will do everything to hide this fact from the general public!
5 years ago
As a southern European, I know this too well.
Last year in my country, dozens of ppl died like this due to a lightning strike in dry weather.
Mediterranean bush is very dry in summer, with a widespread invasive eucalyptus infestation, a highly flammable kind of tree species, and like a full gas tank, and it takes little effort, for a arson jihad to be successful.
A strong wind, dry weather, and all the islamofascists have to do, is scream allah akhabar and celebrate Europe burning.
Afterall, they are taking lessons from the fake Palestinians arson jihad.
5 years ago
The moslim invaders should be thrown into the burning forests.
5 years ago
“Palestinians” and other Muslims do like to play with matches and kites. You don’t suppose…?
5 years ago
Yes, your guess is ‘as good’ as mine… exactly.
This was very sad to see as I have a soft spot in my heart for Greek people for many reasons, one of which is that all the Greeks I met here have always been very warm hearted, kind, generous, good humored, hospitable, and such things as that. My prayers go out to these families!
