With temperatures set to reach up to 38 degrees Celsius on Friday in parts and strong winds forecast for much of the country, authorities were on alert for a heightened risk of wildfires, ekathimerini.com reports.
According to www.meteo.gr, temperatures were to range from 36C to 38C on the western mainland and northwestern Peloponnese, 35-37C in Macedonia, Thessaly, the eastern Aegean, and southern Crete.
The risks are to remain high on Saturday with the General Secretariat for Civil Protection citing a Category 4 risk for Attica, the northern Aegean, the Peloponnese, mainland and western Greece and eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
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