Two Dead As Strong Winds Fuel Fast-Spreading Wildfire On Greece’s Salamina Island

Firefighters battle massive wildfires in Belgium and Greece as 2 die on an island near Athens

Authorities also advised tourists to leave, while a nearby gymnasium was opened to receive evacuees.

Air support, provided by two water-bombing aircraft from Sweden and four helicopters – two from Belgium and two from the Netherlands – is crucial owing to the nature reserve’s complex and fragile terrain, which is made up of dense forest, peat bogs and raised wooden boardwalks where heavy firefighting vehicles risk sinking.

An elderly couple have died in a wildfire on the Greek island of Salamis as a wave of fires continues to sweep across parts of Europe amid intense heat.