Fire service to hire over 1,000 seasonal firefighters in 2026

The fig of firefighting staff adjacent year will beryllium augmented by implicit 1,000 caller seasonal hires, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Yiannis Kefalogiannis has said.

“We already person 1,070 caller hires successful the occurrence work for the caller year,” Kefalogiannis told told Skai TV, referring to the 2026 occurrence play (May 1-October 31).

“Note that we are talking astir seasonal firefighters, who for the archetypal clip this year went connected eight-month alternatively of six-month contracts for 5 years; that is, their contracts will tally to 8 months successful the coming 5 years,” the curate said.

Kefalogiannis said that “for this year, we carried retired operations with the humanities precocious of 18,000 firefighters, whether imperishable oregon declaration staff.”

The curate said that contempt the catastrophic fires successful Europe, which saw triple the demolition of the 20-year mean successful terms of burned land, “Greece and Croatia were the lone countries successful the European Union beneath the 20-year average.” This means that comparatively speaking, “during a very hard summertime we did overmuch amended than different countries.”

Despite that, the occurrence play is not yet over, Kefalogiannis said, and radical still request to beryllium vigilant. “We person had fires interruption retired successful this period arsenic well successful erstwhile years. Therefore, we want maximum consciousness to the end,” helium warned. [AMNA]