Britons forced to evactuate Rhodes have praised Greek families for opening their homes and helping out during the difficult times.
Holidaymakers saw their getaways turn to disasters as the idyllic island has been savaged by wildfires. But locals have been supporting tourists in churches, schools and even their own property.
An evacuation in Kiotari on the south-east was even likened to the war effort in Dunkirk. It saw hundreds attempt to scramble to yachts, catamarans, and glass-bottom tour vessels that
Ferocious wildfires have inflicted devastating damage across southern Europe and forced thousands of people to flee for their lives.
But just how bad are they in comparison to previous years?
It’s important to point out that this is ‘prime fire season’ for the Mediterranean and that such natural disasters are not unusual because of its ‘especially flammable’ landscape.
The region’s climate is the only one in the world with mild wet winters which allow vegetation to grow, and dry, hot
The end of summer arrives, as every child knows, when the first bell rings on the first day of the school year. But where I live, in the Pacific Northwest, the season shows few signs of departing. The triple-digit temperatures that descended for a week in late July and intermittently in August returned to the West last week, breaking records from Southern California to Montana. This week, Sacramento reported an all-time high temperature of a hundred and sixteen degrees, and
We drove back to her house, near the beach, in the city of Santa Cruz, and Stasiewicz mused on the contrast between our settled way of life and the habits of Indigenous tribes. Native Americans had once moved around seasonally while stewarding their forests by means of controlled burns. Today, perhaps, wildfires and their evacuations are forcing people to return to a semi-nomadic existence. Stasiewicz has friends with respiratory ailments who can’t tolerate the wildfire smoke that now routinely blankets
Wildfires broke out across the UK today as families fled for their lives as their homes which they tried to save with buckets of water were engulfed amid blazes across the country in record 40.3C heat.
Firefighters have described blazes tearing through homes and buildings in London as ‘absolute hell’ – with residents evacuated after homes were destroyed, two people taken to hospital for smoke inhalation, and 1,600 calls for assistance.
Elsewhere in the country hundreds of fire crews are
After a relaxing day at the Jersey Shore last July, Jessica Reeder and her son and daughter headed back home to Philadelphia. As they crested a bridge from New Jersey into Pennsylvania, they were greeted with a hazy, yellow-gray sky. It reminded Reeder of the smoky skies she saw growing up in Southern California on days when fires burned in the dry canyons.
Smelling smoke and worried about her asthma and her kids, Reeder flipped the switch to recirculate the
One weekend in late June, I drove with friends to Yolo County, California, a rural area in the Sacramento Valley. It was the second day of a multiday heat wave, and temperatures approached the triple digits. The road shimmered. In the passenger seat, a friend, seven months pregnant, wondered aloud whether it was safe for her to be outside. As we neared our destination, winding through fruit and nut farms, we passed a walnut orchard. Its trees had been cut
