Big fire raging in Greece's Mani peninsula

23 Aug, 2020

ATHENS: More than 100 hundred firefighters on Saturday battled a wildfire that broke out in Greece's southern Mani peninsula, prompting several village evacuations. The fire department said 103 firefighters with 24 fire engines and 15 aircraft had been deployed to the forest of Langadia, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Mani. Five villages were evacuated as a precaution, though communities were not believed to be in immediate danger.

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