There is quite a lot of anecdotal evidence that fire-fighting resources have been allocated in places that are regarded as "priority" leaving other places, incl. villages exposed. Both in cases of the N Evia fire which was concurrent with the Athens fire and on the fire of West
https://twitter.com/efi_makri/status/1423028564056756226
Peloponnese where the archaelogical site of Ancient Olympia has been prioritised. It is very hard to criticise these decisions, especially at this point in time. I hope we can see independent investigations (i.e. not from SKAI TV) on this issue once we are through the crisis.
It's also clear that Greece needs to seriously expand its resources and capabilities (criticisms about govt expenditure priorities are 100% valid). The RescEU program is good but the responses through that cannot be fast enough, when literally every minute counts.
The government is inexcusable for not having thoroughly prepared the forests right in the outskirts of a city of 4 million inhabitants. Three whole years after the Mati disaster! Take a look at this forest - do you see any clear firebreak strips?
Then they let a fire in an easy-to-access plain expand with virtually no wind blowing, until it was too late. The delay in dealing with the Varybobi fire in its very early stages resulted in larger destruction in northern Evia where more resources could not become available.
This is becoming impossible to ignore. They somehow allowed the fire to rekindle in full force and once again, they're pulling resources from Evia.
https://twitter.com/Thalion_1/status/1423243832502669324?s=19
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