The country has been in a fire ring for days now, with the fires one after the other, destroying dozens of homes.
After the huge disasters in Varybombi, Evia, Ancient Olympia and Messinia live through similar moments. Houses have been engulfed in flames, people are trapped, while complaints of inaction by the state mechanism are being made one after the other, with the anger of the residents overflowing. In fact, in thethey personally target Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Dramatic moments in Evia where residents were stranded for hours on the beach in Rovies. In fact, there are reports that there are still people near the sea who have not been rescued. The resident of the settlement Chronia Theodora Tzevetzoglou complained that there were no fire engines.
«It is tragic situation. The situation was left yesterday. They didn't pay any attention because were dealing with the Baribobi, no one dealt with us. The situation was out of control, there were no fire trucks, there was nothing. By 8.30pm on Tuesday, neither the district chief nor anyone had turned up. We were burning from top to bottom. They just caught up and evacuated. They even burned the boats in the sea. We saved our house at the last minute and that's because the wind stopped. The fire brigade turned up after 20.30. Fire engines came from Lamia without even knowing the roads. Right now we are at sea. We don't know what's going on, we've given up everything. We are down in the harbor,» he noted and pointed out. he doesn't know where they're staying.
Similar statements were made by Angeliki Efstathiou, resident of Rovies. «This is about holocaust. By the time we left there there was no plane. I left by road before the road closed. There was a way to save our property. The fire was coming from the Lake to the Pomegranates and there was no airlift. I don't know what the grown-ups are arguing. Is it only Athens?; What do the rest of us do? Why should we throw our money left and right? Do they want to put wind turbines on us too?» he asked.
Another resident reported that he saved his house on his own as there were no firefighters present. «They chased us away. The first to leave were the firefighters. They blocked the road, we couldn't leave. They were crying on the road. My house wasn't damaged but everything around is burnt. Olive groves burned down, people were living off. If I hadn't come back, my house would have burned. There is no water either, with bottled water I put out the fire».
«We are being fooled by the bums, there is not a single plane. We haven't seen a fire truck. I'm going down to the beach. Where do I go? Here we can't live in a small hearth. I fear for my life. Greece is only Athens,» said another resident.
The intervention of a resident in Rodies live on ERT caused a sensation, as vulgarly insulted Kyriakos Mitsotakis. «They took the fire engines from here and took them to Athens. There was nothing. They didn't save Barbumbee or us. They are doubly incompetent» he said, before escalating his attack on the Prime Minister with abusive language.
Anger prevailed among the residents in the settlement of Kafkania near Ancient Olympia where the flames are raging. Residents complain about the non-existence of the state mechanism and firefighting forces.
As recorded on Open's camera, a woman in the settlement of Kafkania is shouting that there is only one firefighter in the village who is fighting with the residents: «They have left the vehicle here without a driver with only a child! Alone with us residents! Where is he? They didn't help us».
«The residents put out the fire» she says desperately, while another resident is heard saying to the camera that no aerial means appeared, only at the beginning of the fire.
Another resident was also angry and in his statements to Open he said: «If we didn't stay there would be nothing standing. It's the fault of those who coordinate the situation, not the firefighters.».
For her part, the mayor of municipality of Oichalia in Messinia, Giota Georgakopoulou reported that houses in the area have also been burned and complained that firefighting is difficult, as no airborne means of operation, which have rushed to Ancient Olympia to battle the flames there.
