‘The Destruction Is Incalculable’
Volunteers raced to rescue more than 250 horses from riding facilities in the Athens suburb of Varibobi, while residents report horses and other livestock running in the streets after their barn and stable doors were thrown open to give them a chance to escape the fires. The government also authorized the transfer of “thousands” of historic artifacts from the Tatoi Royal Palace, the former estate of the Greek royal family, on Tuesday night to protect them from the nearby wildfires.
“The destruction is incalculable,” Spyros Vrettos, the mayor of the suburb of Acharnes, told local television on Wednesday morning. “There’s cinders and ash everywhere, it’s terrible. Dozens of hectares of pine forest have been razed, dozens of houses have been completely destroyed.”
