X054-GRECIA AREAS INCENDIO PATRAS
KAMINIA, NEAR PATRAS, GREECE (AUGUST 13, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)
1. VARIOUS OF COOK ANASTASIA SPILIOPOULOU RETURNING AND LOOKING AT THE FIRE DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE BEACH BAR WHERE SHE USED TO WORK
2. VARIOUS OF THE COMPLETELY DESTROYED BEACH BAR, CHARRED WOODEN BEAMS, INTERIORS STILL SMOKING, TIN ROOFS COLLAPSED INTO A MASS OF METAL
3. DISHES STACKED ON BURNED SHELVES
4. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) COOK, ANASTASIA SPILIOPOULOU, 38, SAYING:
“It holds memories. Because I enjoyed working in this kitchen. It was like my hobby, both at home and here. It was my hobby.”
5. VARIOUS OF THE BURNED BEACH BAR STILL SMOKING
6. SPILIOPOULOU WALKING AROUND THE DEBRIS, LOOKING AT IT IN DESPAIR
7. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) COOK, ANASTASIA SPILIOPOULOU, 38, SAYING:
“(I did hear that) a part of the fire front had crossed from above the national highway towards the sea, but I didn’t know it was actually here, it appeared to be further away, I couldn’t imagine the fire would actually get as far as here …no way. Afterwards, I saw a video that was posted on Facebook and still I said ‘Impossible, this can’t be it.’”
8. VARIOUS OF BURNED ELECTRICITY METER, SMOKE RISING FROM UNDER COLLAPSED TIN ROOFS
9. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) COOK, ANASTASIA SPILIOPOULOU, 38, SAYING:
“Nothing (left). Most important is that the owner is in good health, and we are all safe at home. I am not the only one, there are two more women working here, one from Kaminia and one from Kato Achaia, I was not the only one.”
VRACHNEIKA, NEAR PATRAS, GREECE (AUGUST 13, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)
10. AERIAL VIEW OF CHARRED SLOPES EXTENDING TO THE SEA (MUTE)
11. AERIAL VIEW OF BURNED MOUNTAIN (MUTE)
12. AERIAL OF MOUNTAIN ROAD WINDING AMIDST BURNED FOREST LAND (MUTE)
13. VARIOUS AERIAL OF BURNED MOUNTAINS (MUTE)
KAMINIA, NEAR PATRAS, GREECE (AUGUST 13, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)
14. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESTAURANT OWNER, DIMITRIS DASKAS, 57, SAYING:
“No one’s plot was clean, there was dry grass 2-meters high, and if you look closely you’ll still see it. I told them yesterday, I have been making phone calls since 11pm, I posted on Facebook, I made announcements ‘guys, the fire will cross the mountain’ no one listened. My wife was calling to say we are on fire, they didn’t even pick up. There was no trace of the fire brigade up here. Ok, I get it, they focused on the villages, it makes sense, but we are also part of the village, we are the last house of Patras.”
15. SMALL GREEK FLAGS ON A STRING, WAVING ACROSS THE ROAD FROM DASKAS’S RESTAURANT
16. GREEK FLAG IN DASKAS’S RESTAURANT SCORCHED BY FIRE
17. VARIOUS OF MINOR DAMAGES IN DASKAS’S RESTAURANT, BURNED SPEAKER AND GREEK FLAG, CHAIR
18. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESTAURANT OWNER, DIMITRIS DASKAS, 57, SAYING:
“Tonight I had reservations, a birthday party etc., but we had to throw away all the meat and food, the refrigerators were destroyed.”
19. DASKAS’S ARM IN A SPLINT
20. VARIOUS OF DASKAS CHATTING WITH A FRIEND
21. (SOUNDBITE)(Greek) RESTAURANT OWNER, DIMITRIS DASKAS, 57, SAYING:
“The house over there, their clothes, the wall, it was all burned, it must be torn down, it is no longer inhabitable, I mean to say. My arm, I broke it over there, I fell on it and broke it as I was bringing the extinguishers, here we had no electricity, no water… Five hours before the fire came here we had no water.”
22. BURNED TRAIN TRACKS SMOKING
23. BURNED WAREHOUSE
24. VARIOUS OF CHARRED LAND EXTENDING FROM BELOW DASKAS’S BALCONY TO THE SEA
25. DASKAS CROSSING THE ROAD IN FRONT OF HIS RESTAURANT
DYMI, NEAR PATRAS, GREECE (AUGUST 13, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)
26. VARIOUS OF AN INPOUND LOT WITH HUNDREDS OF BURNED CARS
SKIOESSA, NEAR PATRAS, GREECE (AUGUST 13, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)
27. SMOKE FROM FIRE BURNING ON A SLOPE BEHIND A CEMETERY
28. CEMETERY SURROUNDED BY DENSE SMOKE
29. WHITE SMOKE RISING FROM VALLEY
30. VARIOUS OF TREE TRUNK SLOWLY BURNING, WITH THE RIO BRIDGE IN THE BACKGROUND