In Greece, hit by devastating forest fires, the situation is getting worse.
Since the early hours of the morning, strong westerly winds continued to fuel the numerous fires on Friday.
To the north of Athens, people in several localities were called to leave the region.
Security guards went from house to house so that nobody is forgotten.
Within 24 hours there were 86 new forest fires across the country, as the Greek fire brigade tweeted in the morning.
Even tens of kilometers away from the fires, people see huge clouds of yellow smoke in the sky, it smells burned, ashes are raining down from the sky.
On the island of Evia and the Peloponnese, too, the fires are raging, sometimes uncontrollably.
On Evia, the inhabitants of the village of Agia Anna in the northeast of the island had to be brought to safety by boat across the sea.
There is also a fire in the northwest, where numerous villages have also been evacuated.
In the morning it was only a matter of preventing the fire from spreading, reported the Greek news agency ANA.
In view of the strong winds, there could be no question of controlling the flames for the time being.