27/08/17

[Maik]

Fire on Zakynthos getting more dangerous: firefighters tackling four fronts, it's burnt out the home of an elderly couple and damaged a taverna in  Anafonitria, according to ekathimerini.

[Maik]

A video of the fire on Zakynthos:

[Jolly Roger]

Absolute disaster, houses and businesses lost. Thousands of hectares lost. I can still see a lot of smoke this evening (Sunday) and planes still flying back and forth.

[Maik]

Heard there's a fire in Svoronata area, not sure how bad, fire crews and PZLs tackling it.

[Maik]

A rare Sumatran tiger is born at a North Yorkshire zoo

In the 1970s, there were 1,000 Sumatran tigers in the wild but there are now believed to be around 300.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-41066954/a-rare-sumatran-tiger-is-born-at-a-north-yorkshire-zoo

[TonyKath]

A video of the fire on Zakynthos:

Holy cr*p - that's bad. And guys taking a helluva a chance IMHO.

Tony

[Jolly Roger]

Absolute disaster, houses and businesses lost. Thousands of hectares lost. I can still see a lot of smoke this evening (Sunday) and planes still flying back and forth.

Interesting follow up here.

The land sale of 15,000 stremmata to a foreign fund a couple of years ago, triggered an outrage  among the local population, authorities, the local Metropolis and other bodies who claimed the sale was illegal as the “land plot” as it was forest land, municipality land, byzantine monasteries belonging to the Church but also houses and businesses and infrastructure. The Metropolis of Zakynthos had filed a lawsuit.

Apparently having this background in mind, Galiatsatos said that some try to achieve a ‘change in the use of land.”

On Tuesday, deputy Minister for Citizen Protection, Nikos Toskas, also expressed suspicion that the fires on Zakynthos were caused by arsonists.

http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2017/08/28/zakynthos-wildfires-arson-maries/#.WaROunu3VL4.facebook