Wildfires fanned by strong winds burned across multiple areas of Greece on Saturday (August 1), including near Athens, with large-scale firefighting operations and emergency evacuations underway.

Europe has been ravaged by wildfires this summer after a period of successive record-breaking heatwaves and little rain.

Greek authorities issued emergency alerts for several areas for Saturday and warned of extreme wildfire risk in the regions of Attica and Evia.

More than 300 firefighters, 92 firefighting trucks, heavy machinery and aircraft have continued to battle a conflagration in the region of Boeotia, where over 200 people from the town of Agios Vasileios, about 80 kilometres northwest of Athens, had to be evacuated by sea.

Another 12 people, fleeing the same blaze, were evacuated from the beach in Porto Germeno by Greek Coast Guard patrol boats and a Fire Service vessel.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

NEAR PORTO GERMENO, GREECE (AUGUST 1, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. WILDFIRE / FLAMES ON ROADSIDE

2. VARIOUS OF FIRE RESPONSE VEHICLE AT SCENE OF WILDFIRE, FIREFIGHTERS WATCHING BLAZE

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Greek), EMERGENCY DOCTOR AND FIRST RESPONDER, GIORGOS DOULAS, SAYING:

"The situation is extremely hard, especially today. We have really strong winds. Gusts exceeding 73 km/h. The direction of the fire can't be determined easily. Our brothers, the firefighters, are the ones fighting the massive battle."

4. VARIOUS OF DOULAS WATCHING THE BLAZE

5. VARIOUS OF TREES ON FIRE WITH THICK SMOKE BILLOWING IN THE WIND

6. VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS WATCHING BLAZE AS IT SPREADS

7. (SOUNDBITE) (Greek), PORTO GERMENO RESIDENT, SOULTANA LOUKIDOU, 73, SAYING:

"I have a house in Porto Germeno, and the wildfire was all around it. Everything was burned, the olive trees."

8. LOCAL FILMING WILDFIRE ON HIS PHONE

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Greek), PORTO GERMENO RESIDENT, SOULTANA LOUKIDOU, 73, SAYING:

"It doesn't matter that my house wasn't burned. My neighbour's (houses) were. It's the same."

10. POLICE AND FIREFIGHTERS MOVING AWAY FROM WILDFIRE

11. FIREFIGHTER FILMING BLAZE, THEN ENTERING HIS CAR AND LEAVING AS WILDFIRE CONTINUES TO RAGE

12. FIRE TRUCKS LEAVING

13. VARIOUS FLAMES, BUSHES AND TREES BURNING

14. FIRE FIGHTERS' TRUCK EVACUATING