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Health services on high alert against unfolding forest fire at Zeria, Achaia, northwestern Peloponnese
The university hospitals in the cities of Patras, Aegio and Rio have been put in high alert by order of Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias, as has the National Emergency Response Ambulance Center (EKAV) against the unfolding forest fire at Zeria, Achaia, northwestern Peloponnese, it was reported on Saturday.
Head of Melbourne Greek community: Australia's 'most difficult moments'
"We are going through the most difficult moments in the history of Australia," the president of the Greek community of Melbourne, Vasilis Papastergiadis, told radio station 'Praktoreio 104.9 FM' on Tuesday.
'Everything turned black in the middle of the day' says Greek-Australian who lost his house in the NSW fires
Nick Tsigolis, from Sydney, spents most of his time in Bateman's Bay where he used to have a holiday house. The recent fires, still raging in the area, turned the much-loved place he bought 28 years ago into a charred skeleton. He shared his story with SBS Greek.