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'You look to save what you can' Greek residents recall escaping Salamina island fire

VIDEO SHOWS: RESIDENTS TALKING ABOUT MOMENT FIRE CAME, HOW THEY REACTED, THE ELDERLY COUPLE THAT DIED/SITE WHERE COUPLE DIED/HELLENIC RED CROSS WORKERS ON SITE, COMMENTING ON HELPING RESIDENTS/DRONE VIEWS OF BURNED HOMES, LANDSCAPE

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SHOWS: PERISTERIA, SALAMINA, GREECE (AUGUST 17, 2026)(REUTERS – Access all)

1. (MUTE) VARIOUS DRONE VIEWS OF BURNED HOUSES AND PROPERTIES

2. AFRODITI HARAMSHINA AND HER HUSBAND GEORGE KOREAS SITTING ON THEIR BALCONY

3. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) AFRODITI HARAMSHINA, 50, A NATIVE OF TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN, WHO LIVES PERMANENTLY IN GREECE SAYING:

“How can I describe it? You have only seconds, what can you manage to (save) in time? yourself? Your pets? The house? What?”

4. HARAMSHINA AND KOREAS SITTING

5. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT GEORGE KOREAS, 73, HUSBAND OF HARAMSHINA, SAYING:

“I tried by myself (to put out the fire) I did what I could, and luckily I saved the house.”

6. HARAMSHINA AND KOREAS

7. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT GEORGE KOREAS, 73, HUSBAND OF HARAMSHINA, SAYING:

“(It was) frightening. I was afraid, but because I have two doors, and one of the doors led towards the sea, I thought, if something happens I will jump into the sea.”

8. VARIOUS OF WHITE SHEET AT SITE WHERE DECEASED ELDERLY COUPLE HAD BEEN FOUND

9. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT THEODOROS KYPREOS, 73, SPEAKING ON THE DECEASED COUPLE, SAYING:

“Yes they were my neighbours and they were elderly. I think because her husband walked very slowly they did not have time to leave.”

10. VARIOUS OF A BURNED HOUSE

11. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT THEODOROS KYPREOS, 73, SAYING:

“There is so much adrenaline you don’t have time to be afraid or feel anything, you look to save what you can.”

12. HELLENIC RED CROSS WORKERS GOING TO A DAMAGED HOME

13. HELLENIC RED CROSS WORKERS STANDING AT DOOR

14. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) HELLENIC RED CROSS NURSE ZOI MAROULI, 28, SAYING:

“We go from house to house, to see if there are any relatives, if someone needs help. At that particular house (where the couple died) there was not anyone. And we continue to the rest of the houses.”

15. HELLENIC RED CROSS WORKERS WALKING IN FIRE DAMAGED AREA

16. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) HELLENIC RED CROSS NURSE ZOI MAROULI, 28, SAYING:

“We try to come into contact with those affected, with permanent residents and others to inform them of the safety measures they have to take after the tragic event. We try to provide first aid to whoever needs it, with masks, and what the affected might need, and of course social workers provide mental health first aid.”

17. RESIDENT ANDREAS TSAKLIDIS DOUSING HIS YARD WITH A HOSE

18. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT ANDREAS TSAKLIDIS, 61, SAYING:

“We were sleeping with our two dogs and I got up to get some water and I see smoke. I go outside and my neighbour says, ‘Andreas come outside we have a fire up top, and I see a fire 50 metres away, over 30 metres high and I don’t know how wide, and it was coming down with a force.”

19. BURNED HOME

20. BURNED PERGOLA AND CARS

21. BURNED CARS

22. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT ANDREAS TSAKLIDIS, 61, SAYING:

“I was calm, my goal was to save those with me, my wife and my two dogs, that was my concern, and to get to the beach with our cars so we could get away. After that I did not care if it all burned.”

23. VARIOUS OF BURNED TAVERN

24. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESIDENT ANDREAS TSAKLIDIS, 61, SAYING:

“At least we have our house, others lost their homes. Others died or were burned. A woman up there, whose house burned, has burns on her legs and hands because she did not get away in time.Compared to what happened to them, (what I went through) is nothing.”

25.VARIOUS OF BURNED CARS

26. HOUSE GUTTED BY FIRE IN FRONT OF THE SEA