Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday, and ferries were on standby for more evacuations after taking many to safety by sea.
“I feel angry. I lost my home… nothing will be the same the next day,” said one resident after boarding a rescue ferry at Psaropouli. “It’s a disaster. It’s huge. Our villages are destroyed, there is nothing left from our homes,” she said.
The blaze on Evia, a large island east of the capital, quickly burgeoned into several fronts, ripping through thousands of hectares of forest across its northern part and forcing the evacuation of dozens of villages.
