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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday announced a special allocation of 500 million euros from the state budget for Attica Region and Evia island to immediately help residents who lost homes and businesses in wildfires this week.

The front of the fire that broke out in Agios Thomas of the Municipality of Gortyna, in Heraklion, is in recession. The fire brigade fought an overnight battle with the fires and according to the Coordination of the Regional Directorate of the Crete Police, the fire is expected to be controlled soon.

The biggest wildfire front raging in Greece on Sunday evening remained in northern Evia, a large island straddling the eastern mainland that is slightly larger than Long Island in New York State. The site is now focus of fire-fighting and civil defense forces.