Wildfire on Mount Pangaio rages for seventh day

A wildfire successful a distant country of Mount Pangaio successful Kavala, northeastern Greece, continued to pain for a seventh consecutive time connected Wednesday, ravaging invaluable wood and brushland.

The firefighting effort involves 280 firefighters, supported by 25 crushed units and 46 occurrence section vehicles, with aerial assistance from 3 water-dropping helicopters and 3 aircraft.

The occurrence broke retired connected August 22 successful a forested portion beneath the Avgo peak, astatine an altitude of implicit 1,500 meters, successful a peculiarly inaccessible location.

As of Tuesday noon, the occurrence had consumed 13.41 quadrate kilometers, according to the EU Climate Change Service, Copernicus.