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15/08/21
« on: Sunday, 15 August, 2021 @ 02:31:07 »
Three new coronavirus cases confirmed on Kefalonia yesterday by EODY.

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Re: 15/08/21
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, 15 August, 2021 @ 02:32:47 »
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Volunteer vets tend to Greece’s fire-hit pets

With balm and bandages for scorched paws, volunteers at a makeshift animal shelter north of Athens are doing what they can for cats and dogs, whether strays or left behind as their owners fled advancing wildfires. The volunteer vets have organized an “intensive care” area to monitor severely burnt animals under a tarpaulin in an abandoned quarry on the outskirts of the capital. “So far we have taken in 233 animals,” Yannis Batsas, president of Action Volunteers Greek Veterinarians, told AFP.

And the animals keep coming. “We receive about 20 every day.” The less severely affected four-legged survivors get baths every two to three hours to cool their burns.
https://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/volunteer-vets-tend-to-greeces-fire-hit-pets/

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Re: 15/08/21
« Reply #2 on: Sunday, 15 August, 2021 @ 02:34:29 »
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'Heaven to hell': Greek beekeepers lament tradition lost to fire

On the scorched earth, dozens of blackened rings mark all that remains of beehives that dotted the once verdant hillsides outside the village of Voutas on Greece's Evia island.

Pine, walnut and fig trees were among the rich plant life sustaining the bees in a region that produces 40 percent of Greece's honey. And those industrious workers were, in turn, a cornerstone of the local ecosystem, pollinating local farmers' crops.

"It's a whole way of life that we lost along with the forest," says Babis, 53, whose main source of income was his hives.

"What are we going to find here next year? It's over. We've gone from heaven to hell."

Bee colonies that have been bred over decades, with skills passed down through generations, have been wiped out in a fury of wild fires billowed by the forces of climate change.
https://www.news24.com/fin24/Economy/heaven-to-hell-greek-beekeepers-lament-tradition-lost-to-fire-20210814

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Re: 15/08/21
« Reply #3 on: Sunday, 15 August, 2021 @ 13:27:54 »
Allegedly there was a collision at Kef airport last night involving an easyJet 'plane on take off and a bird. Don't know what happened to the bird but the 'plane took off as normal.

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Re: 15/08/21
« Reply #4 on: Sunday, 15 August, 2021 @ 14:15:52 »
The bird's probably spitting feathers......

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Re: 15/08/21
« Reply #5 on: Monday, 16 August, 2021 @ 02:02:15 »
I think the engine was spitting out feathers...