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Firefighters continue to battle  flames in Eastern Attica, Loutraki and Dervenochoria.

The Fire Department has started the summer wildfire season fighting fires continuously over the last few days. On Tuesday morning, the fight continues on two fire fronts, in Itea and Kranidi. With the crack of dawn firefighting aircraft and helicopters took to the skies to contribute an effort to limit the fires that broke out yesterday. The fire in Itea, which broke out yesterday, is burning uncontrollably along an immense fire front which by evening had reached 20 kilometers.

16% of the forests of mainland Attica -that is about one sixth of the total- are estimated to have been burned during the recent fires in Schino, Varybombi, Keratea and Vilia, according to an analysis by the National Observatory of Athens / meteo.gr.