I m not going to Lie to you...i m here to say hard truths...Obama Green legacies are here and far worse to come....for someone to mention trump...at least he not to pretend to be Green asmhypocrite Obama/ Biden..?fracking is environmental barbarism and they wanna force EU to buy LNG instead of far less polluting Russian gass
I am so sorry for the people who burned the forests that were suffering in Greece. as people of turk, we share your pain . stay strong . from Turkey with love
As a firefighter... Hows about less useless prayers and more proactive action? Get involved, go fund-raise for better PPE/Equipment, pick up a fire hose, do something. Thoughts and prayers doesn't give us support.
Sorrow Hearts From Turks :) for our next door neighbors. let's join Turkish Tree planting holiday November 11, every year in Turkey , we should get every country to join in this Tree planting Festival, holiday Turks started. they are our Lungs no matter where they grow, let love of tree bring the World together to be free
Yes its their one main goal 2 years now (policing the streets-riots, even made a special task force to police public colleges). Also they still havent hired a single doctor and we dont have enough covid icu's. The goverment is in denial and they are just buying time to suck Greek people's money and soul. There are so many things that have been going on, that I would need a whole book to explain here.
@@mn7486 Theres is a huge increase in police forces, antiriot equipment and military equipment, why would you spread such a lie ? 1.7 million where granted to Fire department instead of 17 that was asked last year , while 20 million in 2020 where given to Media among other nonsensical decisions made by the most greedy, useless and dangerous government that this country has ever seen . Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his ministers are dangerous and they need to be in jail.
Not gonna happen. There’s fires just as bad going on in other countries currently too. Also, the world needed to come together from years ago. Don’t think it’s going to come together now.
well the government was forced to enact extreme austerity measures by the EU under cutting the firefighting department and now you see one of the consequences of that.
May God bless the people of Greece and their beautiful country. May they be protected and God will bring rain! Sending love from Northern California. Also for the fires in Sacramento California
this climate change with its terrible consequences is manmade, there is no god helping out. It’s in our responsibility to change behavior drastically, not in gods hands.
We hope never,Sorrow Hearts From Turks :) for our next door neighbors. let's join Turkish Tree planting holiday November 11, every year in Turkey , we should get every country to join in this Tree planting Festival, holiday Turks started. they are our Lungs no matter where they grow, let love of tree bring the World together to be free
I am from Greece and after 10 days of heatwave with temperatures over 40 degrees everything is dry and everything is burning. The firefighters and pilots finish with one fire and have to go to another fire. Also the Greek forests are made of pine trees and it is fire's best friend. Each pine tree has numerus pines which works as "grenades". It explode and jump dozens of meters away on dry grass spreading the fire to different directions. Finally, since Greece is 80% mountainous country only the airplanes can make the difference in many cases. Despite the fact that this year Greece had one of the biggest firefighting air fleets in Europe we couldn't prevent the catastrophe because of the many fires.
Really good coverage. As a Greek I feel the need to inform people in the comments that after 2 devastating summers of wildfires, our government decided this year NOT to renew the contracts of 2700 seasonal firefighters in order to hire 4400 priests. We can all see that prayers are not enough to put out the fires. It's sad. :'(
The sun burns everywhere with the same power, but it happened to have more power in that particular town, and the liberals come with the BS global warming theory. When Rome got burned, it wasn’t because of the global warming day, but because of some firefighters didn’t get the renewed contact, and they were called Visigoths!!
Neglect of government. Government officials now a days are pure talk and no action. If thats common in summer they should have plan ahead before summer comes and save water and buy firefighting planes ans more firetrucks and steps ahead to prevent this. Keep safe everyone. Praying for a good rain in Turkey, Greece and California.
As a Swede who during military did a *lot* of fires, I feel so sad at their attempts to douse bushes- and timber with water. Once a bonfire gets going, it doesn't matter if there's 30cm of godamn snow on a tree, it *will* burn and feed the cycle. You can slow it down, but you can't stop it once the critical heat has been reached.
I feel sorry for all the people who are affected by these devastation of fires, hope that they can be resilient and get all necessary help, but it's Scandalous how the authorities have not prepared for the situation when it's clear wildfires and global warming is increasing the risks,?
perhaps you don't know that the price Greece pays to be in the neoliberal EU is permanent poverty. so a more interesting question is why haven't california, oregon, and canada too, prepared for their devastating fires, with all the money they have?! or even: why hasn't germany prepared for the floods? - either way, it's the countries that benefit from the carbon economy at the root of global warming, like germany itself, that should bear the costs of these disasters.
@@chiarayavhnoska966 yes that's true but some governments thrive on natural disasters unfortunately true, because it generates economy due rebuilding I.e., America for example. I seen the fire engines in Turkey on news and they were not up to date to deal with large scale wildfires, they should have had prepared in advance because the fires are a regular occurrence in these areas. Hope they update their equipment. I'm afraid money is the cause and problem in this circumstances. Lives matter, people first.
@@flaminshadow1447 that's very bad, like we need more bad situations, despite covid pandemics, jobs at risk, people struggling to survive and criminals settling fires!! It's beyond words. God please 🙏🙏
@@dimitris737 because we had 6.000 police officers in Athens on December for riot control, but 540 firefighters on the first two days of the fire. You can have both, in fact you need to have both, but the numbers are indicative of poor planning.
I heard a 14 year old started the fires from a news story about this. I don't understand how someone could be so cruel and heartless. Praying for Greece. Ο θεοσ και την Παναγια να ειναι μαζι σασ και να σασ πρωστατευουν παντα.
The only nightmerish is the Greek Prime Minister. His government was in the verge of collapse already before the fies. He fired 5000 seasonal firemen, he did not pay for the maintenance of the old fleet of 72 firefighting airplanes and only 15 of them can still fly. He rent a Russian airplane to mitigate the problem that he can not send airplanes to battle the fires. After the disaster of Mati 3 years ago when 100 persons were trapped in a fast moving fire and burned alive, all local authorities officials are very sensitive and they are issuing evacuation orders even when this is not needed. There was no strong winds all this week, fires were raging slowly and evacuation is not needed in most cases, however the police instead of helping the understaffed fire brigade, is after thousands of locals to convince them evacuate. This results in to homes left unprotected because no firemen are there when fire approaches. For decades most houses were always protected by their owners, now all places and settlements are left evacuated and the fire destroys everything. This is not a climate crisis, this is a manmade crisis by a neoliberal who thinks that we need less hospitals (yes he promised a month ago that he will close hospitals), less firebrigade personel, etc. The forest authorities were asking for 17 million euros at the beginning of the season to prepare forests for the fires. He gave them 1.7 million euros, the same ammount he gave for building new pavements in the city centre of Athens. At the same time when Fraport (a German company controling Greek airports) asked for help, he gave 380 million euros. As for the fires, they are not even the worst of the last 20 years. The worst season was th summer of 2007, when more or less the same places were burning. These places have been burned again and again. The North Evia, is one of the most densely forested areas of Greece, it is a marble, a beauty. However just 14 days ago local municipaliites rejected installing wind turbines in their places. Now, North Evia (that very strangely although a virgine forest was never included in the Natura Protected Areas) was left without a single airplane combatting the fire. The entire region has been completely burned and according to the Greek law, landuse can be changed in burnt areas and wind turbines can be installed. So, we are burning a virgin forest, for companies to install wind turbines to help battle the climate change. We destroy nature to help nature. That's an oxymoron. You do not learn the truth by a 6 minute news video. Things are way more complicated. Just start digging for information in the web and try to find out what the local inhabbitants are say for all this disaster! It is manmade, taking advantage of a dry season. You do not leave the firebrigade understaffed and the airplaned grounded and then blame the climate change for the disaster. It is not even stupidity, it is a well organised crime.
Experiencing the same here in Turkey. for a week now. Our governments suck. Its our people only who do their best to put it out. My prayers with people of Greecce. God help you guys!
When Greece had it's bailout from the 2008 financial crises I know the EU put limits on how much money Greece was allowed to invest in all sorts of different things. I'm wondering how much the invested into fire fighting infrastructure was impacted by the rules imposed on Greece with these bailouts.
We invested zero money for fire protection over the last two years. 1.7M € only were given for fire protection all over the country. The government continues hiring police power, maybe wishing for a dictatorship after 37 years.
02:22 - About 2 weeks ago we had huge floodings in Germany. In the first days only civil help from volunteers came into the areas, because the officials were to slow and their ways were to bureaucratic. No police, no fire department, no army - for the first 3 days. That's what all the people tell in the interviews. They are very angry at the government. And now I see this in Greece and it's the same all over again. The few fire men are exhausted, but no support from the army...
God is full of mercy, if people had the right relations between them, the fires wouldn't have been a problem, most likely fires would not have taken place to start with.
@@iche9373 yeah right. I wanted to help but Im thousand miles away. All I could do is pray. God is the only one who has super power now to help them. And I believe in Him and prayers.
My heart goes put to the people Hellas, both as a fellow Hellene (well, half), and a resident of California, where we’re seeing these wildfire storms increasingly (same climate).
In Germany, Netherland, and Belgium, there's a lot of water because of the flood, in Turkey and Greece it's the fire that struck them and they need those water from the flood and because of air, the virus is spreading from people to people and country to country what is happening? it seems like nature is destroying humanity, is it a sign? Helping one another is the major factor here, everybody should help one another, we are nothing compared to the disaster brought by nature.
"Helping one another is the major factor here" Agreed. The main thing is to keep the tories away from these things, as they will look for a way to make a profit from it.
The problem are not the fire brigade, they are good equipped and motivated. Today they can not be everywhere, they work hard. The problem is the forestry service, they are absolutely ignorant and have never thought about preparing for fires like this. Deadwood is not removed, dry branches are piling up.
@@giorgospapanikolaou2193 I do not have the actual numbers, in 2014 there where 2937 people permanently employed, now there are more and many additionally temporary workers in the forestry service in Greece.
Please don’t throw cigarette 🚬 but outside the car when traveling this time the year almost six months and people need to stop fireworks 🎆 should punish people who fireworks
So sad. Why EU does NOT help the poor people? The EU has proven to be a bunch of useless bureaucrats this year. Something needs to be fundamentally changed or this will be the fate of all members (and thus of the whole of Europe). They don’t deal with the fundamental problems of the community at all, and that’s what ordinary people pay too dearly for. Greece💪 GR HR
This correspondent is useless. She is full of inaccuracies, she doesn't even present numbers. In another video she was saying greeks have a custom to burn trees(??). I can assure you greeks don't have such a custom. If you are looking for the reason this wildfires started it's quiet plenty and very different from one another. Some are by accidents from outside works, others are arsons, people have been arrested with various accusations. The greek firefighter forces are considerable in terms of personnel and equipment. They are proportional to the economic capacity of the country. The conditions we are facing are extreme and most countries will have to deal with them either in form of drought, high temperatures, wildfires, extreme rain, floodes etc. As climate change proceed we will have to change our plans and find new ways of dealing with those situations. Also not every state have the ability to absorb change with the same pace. I find very intresting the different approch DW have into presenting the devastating floods in Germany with hundreds of dead and the wildfires in Greece. I also find very interesting the toxic comment section.
DW are always doing journalism the way they want and not subjectively. Actually they do not know this term. Let them say whatever they wanna say. The truth is NOT what DW preaches though...
Greece is surrounded by sea. So if the pilots of the firefighting airplanes had NIGHT VISION GOGGLES they could operate at night also and douse the forest fires swiftly.
Serbia is sending aid to Greece, firefighters, helicopters and fire trucks are taking action! We stand with you brothers always!! Pray for Hellas 🇷🇸💙🇬🇷🙏
I understand the indignation of people who see their property and homes burning and wondering where the help is,but not possible with 40 degrees Celsius temperature for a week and 112 fires simultaneously across the country,to avoid these catastrophes!Human lives are a priority.
I am living to this Island..the island Evia(Euboea) of Greece.The fire is very big and only with the help of another countries we will can defeat this fire.
Yes every year a part of Greece is burning. This year, like 2018 is the worst because parts of Greece have been burning since June. These particular fires to varimpompi and evia is an act of arson
That's why I think, life's all about having fun, having a whale 🐳🐋 of a time as long as we're alive and helping others out since we can't take anything with us when we Kick the bucket.
Australia, Russia, Turkey, Greece, USA are dealing with catastrophic wild fires. In other parts of the world, flooding and earthquakes, still dealing with a pandemic. Anyone else as concerned as I am that we have reached the tipping point with global warming? 🧐😱
Help from many countries arrived in Greece today.Airplanes and helicopters from Cuprys (2),France(3),Sweden(2),Croatia(1),Sweatzerland(3),Egypt(2), Spain(1) and many firefighters and fire trucks from Cyprus,France,Romania,Ukrain,israel.Tommorow help is expected from Germany,Czech Republic,Poland,Slovakia,Austria,UK,Qatar and Kuweit (Firefighters and fire trucks..THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYBODY..
@@Frank75288 correct, " lots more countries" actually is Gr. Britain, Cyprus, Ukraine, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Egypt, Czech Republic, USA, Slovakia Spain, Lithuania, Germany. Thank you all ❤️ 🙂
As a Californian who has witnessed the devastation of firestorms, my heart and prayers go out to those affected.
As Californian you voted Obama? He gave birth to fracking industry and polluted our skies...
@@bobpadok5331 As a yeehawan did you vote for trump? Who destroyed all regulations on pollution and allowed companies to warm the atmosphere?
Bob, this is about people fleeing for their lives. People who have lost everything. You couldn’t think of anything supportive or helpful to say?
@@bobpadok5331 LOL. You are wrong! You look so silly with egg on your face.
I m not going to Lie to you...i m here to say hard truths...Obama Green legacies are here and far worse to come....for someone to mention trump...at least he not to pretend to be Green asmhypocrite Obama/ Biden..?fracking is environmental barbarism and they wanna force EU to buy LNG instead of far less polluting Russian gass
I am so sorry for the people who burned the forests that were suffering in Greece. as people of turk, we share your pain . stay strong . from Turkey with love
Blessings and hope from Northern California, we are living the same situation.
CALIFORNIA🙏🤲 MORE RAIN🌧🌧🌧🙏🙏🙏
Our prayers with the people of Greece in this hour of grief and pain..... Love from India.
Thank you❤
Thank you ❤️
Prayers aren't going to do anything.
God bless Greece and its residents. Xx
Pray for rain. Xx
Unbelievably devastating my prayers and heart goes out to those affected
I see so many prayers. They are not heard. Actually do something instead
As a firefighter... Hows about less useless prayers and more proactive action? Get involved, go fund-raise for better PPE/Equipment, pick up a fire hose, do something. Thoughts and prayers doesn't give us support.
@@Pemalite prayers are NEVER useless.....have a good day & God bless.
Sorrow Hearts From Turks :) for our next door neighbors. let's join Turkish Tree planting holiday November 11, every year in Turkey , we should get every country to join in this Tree planting Festival, holiday Turks started. they are our Lungs no matter where they grow, let love of tree bring the World together to be free
"The government thought we needed more police and not fire fighters"
This
Yes its their one main goal 2 years now (policing the streets-riots, even made a special task force to police public colleges). Also they still havent hired a single doctor and we dont have enough covid icu's. The goverment is in denial and they are just buying time to suck Greek people's money and soul. There are so many things that have been going on, that I would need a whole book to explain here.
Probably they were right, the police would protect them from you, from the fire fighters and probably from the fire!
Actually this statement is not true. There has been no change in the number of firefighters or police in Greece.
@@mn7486 Theres is a huge increase in police forces, antiriot equipment and military equipment, why would you spread such a lie ? 1.7 million where granted to Fire department instead of 17 that was asked last year , while 20 million in 2020 where given to Media among other nonsensical decisions made by the most greedy, useless and dangerous government that this country has ever seen . Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his ministers are dangerous and they need to be in jail.
GREEK BROTHERS ALL SUPPORT FROM SERBIA we will send you help dont worry, i pray for you 🙏
French firefighters and Israeli firefighters are in Greece, , the world needs to work together
Not gonna happen. There’s fires just as bad going on in other countries currently
too. Also, the world needed to come together from years ago. Don’t think it’s going to come together now.
Romanian firefighter s too
Nah
@@tamara_diamonds422 your right. World ain't neva coming together. Evaaa!
100 Ukrainian firefighters also there
As an Azerbaijani, I pray for Greece
I hope we will be good friends in the future❤🇬🇷
Oh shut the hello up. If Turkey attacks Greece you will cut their throats. .
@@pinkdiamondz0 First, really thanks for the politeness!!
Second, whose throats do we cut?
And third, why should Turkey attack Greece !?
The reporter did a great job going on, even after losing her connection to the studio.
Poor Greeks, this is sad. But I trust the Greek Spirit...they always come back.
@@MBB563 thank you! We have spirit but not government
well the government was forced to enact extreme austerity measures by the EU under cutting the firefighting department and now you see one of the consequences of that.
Happy newruz 🤣😂
She's an experienced and true professional.
May God bless the people of Greece and their beautiful country. May they be protected and God will bring rain! Sending love from Northern California. Also for the fires in Sacramento California
this climate change with its terrible consequences is manmade, there is no god helping out. It’s in our responsibility to change behavior drastically, not in gods hands.
This is terrifying. It's only a question of time until we see such wildfires in Germany too.
APTTMH
Dude its raining whole day all day.
@@amarmrkulic1389 so Germany flooded?
ahahah LOL wildfires in germany? the joke of the century
We hope never,Sorrow Hearts From Turks :) for our next door neighbors. let's join Turkish Tree planting holiday November 11, every year in Turkey , we should get every country to join in this Tree planting Festival, holiday Turks started. they are our Lungs no matter where they grow, let love of tree bring the World together to be free
I am from Greece and after 10 days of heatwave with temperatures over 40 degrees everything is dry and everything is burning.
The firefighters and pilots finish with one fire and have to go to another fire. Also the Greek forests are made of pine trees and it is fire's best friend. Each pine tree has numerus pines which works as "grenades". It explode and jump dozens of meters away on dry grass spreading the fire to different directions. Finally, since Greece is 80% mountainous country only the airplanes can make the difference in many cases. Despite the fact that this year Greece had one of the biggest firefighting air fleets in Europe we couldn't prevent the catastrophe because of the many fires.
Hang on in there! Hopefully the situation gets under control
Really good coverage. As a Greek I feel the need to inform people in the comments that after 2 devastating summers of wildfires, our government decided this year NOT to renew the contracts of 2700 seasonal firefighters in order to hire 4400 priests. We can all see that prayers are not enough to put out the fires. It's sad. :'(
should've gone for Zeus, perhaps then Greece would have a better chance
The sun burns everywhere with the same power, but it happened to have more power in that particular town, and the liberals come with the BS global warming theory. When Rome got burned, it wasn’t because of the global warming day, but because of some firefighters didn’t get the renewed contact, and they were called Visigoths!!
sad but true, our govenment didn't care about fire protection
Neglect of government. Government officials now a days are pure talk and no action. If thats common in summer they should have plan ahead before summer comes and save water and buy firefighting planes ans more firetrucks and steps ahead to prevent this. Keep safe everyone. Praying for a good rain in Turkey, Greece and California.
They have other plans, how to increase taxes for the climate change.
Wildfires during summer are normal in Greece but not on this scale
Probably terrorists started them
I hope they will recover soon good wishes from istanbul
Stay safe Greece.
What a pointless thing to say. So facile. I think they’re beyond safety now don’t you?
AOB and no comment, you two should get a room, a pair of twats together.
@@aob4214 no more pointless than your comment.
Well done, Barbara! Thanks for reporting to us.
Prayers everyone 🙏🏾✨
So very sorry, dear people. Solidarity from hearts and lots of love from East Africa. Your hearts must be breaking; warm hugs.
As a Swede who during military did a *lot* of fires, I feel so sad at their attempts to douse bushes- and timber with water. Once a bonfire gets going, it doesn't matter if there's 30cm of godamn snow on a tree, it *will* burn and feed the cycle. You can slow it down, but you can't stop it once the critical heat has been reached.
I feel sorry for all the people who are affected by these devastation of fires, hope that they can be resilient and get all necessary help, but it's Scandalous how the authorities have not prepared for the situation when it's clear wildfires and global warming is increasing the risks,?
perhaps you don't know that the price Greece pays to be in the neoliberal EU is permanent poverty. so a more interesting question is why haven't california, oregon, and canada too, prepared for their devastating fires, with all the money they have?! or even: why hasn't germany prepared for the floods? - either way, it's the countries that benefit from the carbon economy at the root of global warming, like germany itself, that should bear the costs of these disasters.
@@chiarayavhnoska966 yes that's true but some governments thrive on natural disasters unfortunately true, because it generates economy due rebuilding I.e., America for example. I seen the fire engines in Turkey on news and they were not up to date to deal with large scale wildfires, they should have had prepared in advance because the fires are a regular occurrence in these areas. Hope they update their equipment. I'm afraid money is the cause and problem in this circumstances. Lives matter, people first.
This is not because of global warming, this is clearly arson people have been caught starting the fires both in Greece and in Turkey
@@flaminshadow1447 that's very bad, like we need more bad situations, despite covid pandemics, jobs at risk, people struggling to survive and criminals settling fires!! It's beyond words. God please 🙏🙏
I'm from Greece, i live close to fires, it's not the global warming and yes, the goverment is not helping! thank you for your support
the girl told the truth
You can have policemen and firemen at the same time why judging one over the other?
@@dimitris737 because we had 6.000 police officers in Athens on December for riot control, but 540 firefighters on the first two days of the fire. You can have both, in fact you need to have both, but the numbers are indicative of poor planning.
@@thers1tes well they do care more about people wearing masks for covid than these fires you see..
it's because of unapproved mass immigration. France couldn't even field enough police they had to call the national army to maintain security.
@@thers1tes protests supporting convicted murderers is not a riot
Greeks are amazing people, stay safe.
🇬🇷🇦🇺
Thank you!
Prayers for Greece may God easier your pain o theous ine megalo ...
Polish firefighters 46 vehicles and 134 firefighters will reach Greece in a few hours 💪🇵🇱
I heard a 14 year old started the fires from a news story about this. I don't understand how someone could be so cruel and heartless. Praying for Greece. Ο θεοσ και την Παναγια να ειναι μαζι σασ και να σασ πρωστατευουν παντα.
Stay strong Greece 🇬🇷🇵🇭
Stay strong 💪 Greece 🇬🇷
The only nightmerish is the Greek Prime Minister. His government was in the verge of collapse already before the fies. He fired 5000 seasonal firemen, he did not pay for the maintenance of the old fleet of 72 firefighting airplanes and only 15 of them can still fly. He rent a Russian airplane to mitigate the problem that he can not send airplanes to battle the fires. After the disaster of Mati 3 years ago when 100 persons were trapped in a fast moving fire and burned alive, all local authorities officials are very sensitive and they are issuing evacuation orders even when this is not needed. There was no strong winds all this week, fires were raging slowly and evacuation is not needed in most cases, however the police instead of helping the understaffed fire brigade, is after thousands of locals to convince them evacuate. This results in to homes left unprotected because no firemen are there when fire approaches. For decades most houses were always protected by their owners, now all places and settlements are left evacuated and the fire destroys everything. This is not a climate crisis, this is a manmade crisis by a neoliberal who thinks that we need less hospitals (yes he promised a month ago that he will close hospitals), less firebrigade personel, etc. The forest authorities were asking for 17 million euros at the beginning of the season to prepare forests for the fires. He gave them 1.7 million euros, the same ammount he gave for building new pavements in the city centre of Athens. At the same time when Fraport (a German company controling Greek airports) asked for help, he gave 380 million euros. As for the fires, they are not even the worst of the last 20 years. The worst season was th summer of 2007, when more or less the same places were burning. These places have been burned again and again. The North Evia, is one of the most densely forested areas of Greece, it is a marble, a beauty. However just 14 days ago local municipaliites rejected installing wind turbines in their places. Now, North Evia (that very strangely although a virgine forest was never included in the Natura Protected Areas) was left without a single airplane combatting the fire. The entire region has been completely burned and according to the Greek law, landuse can be changed in burnt areas and wind turbines can be installed. So, we are burning a virgin forest, for companies to install wind turbines to help battle the climate change. We destroy nature to help nature. That's an oxymoron. You do not learn the truth by a 6 minute news video. Things are way more complicated. Just start digging for information in the web and try to find out what the local inhabbitants are say for all this disaster! It is manmade, taking advantage of a dry season. You do not leave the firebrigade understaffed and the airplaned grounded and then blame the climate change for the disaster. It is not even stupidity, it is a well organised crime.
My heart goes to the residents of these villiages. I hope they get to safety soon 🙏
Experiencing the same here in Turkey. for a week now. Our governments suck. Its our people only who do their best to put it out. My prayers with people of Greecce. God help you guys!
ISIS terrorists started them
When Greece had it's bailout from the 2008 financial crises I know the EU put limits on how much money Greece was allowed to invest in all sorts of different things.
I'm wondering how much the invested into fire fighting infrastructure was impacted by the rules imposed on Greece with these bailouts.
The truth is Greece didn’t invest it in the right place even though they got millions of EU cash
We invested zero money for fire protection over the last two years. 1.7M € only were given for fire protection all over the country. The government continues hiring police power, maybe wishing for a dictatorship after 37 years.
Not 17 millions, 1,7 million!!! They asked for 17 but they got 1,7m
@@yanagardey5255 you're right , miswritten
Current government are a bunch of far right vultures trying to line their pockets. They did nothing and people are outraged.
Pray for Greece 🇬🇷 🙏 🙏🙏🙏
My parents are there now. Pretty scary.
The Philippines are praying for you Greece!!
S'agapo Greece, stay strong.
02:22 - About 2 weeks ago we had huge floodings in Germany. In the first days only civil help from volunteers came into the areas, because the officials were to slow and their ways were to bureaucratic. No police, no fire department, no army - for the first 3 days. That's what all the people tell in the interviews. They are very angry at the government. And now I see this in Greece and it's the same all over again. The few fire men are exhausted, but no support from the army...
God please have mercy. Please stop this disaster and please give them a good rain. 🙏🙏🙏
Helping works better than praying
yes, to Poseidon...
God bless you
God is full of mercy, if people had the right relations between them, the fires wouldn't have been a problem, most likely fires would not have taken place to start with.
@@iche9373 yeah right. I wanted to help but Im thousand miles away. All I could do is pray. God is the only one who has super power now to help them. And I believe in Him and prayers.
Lord have mercy on your people 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
This is really sad, may God send down rain on time to quench the fires. Praying with you from Ghana
Those Greece fires are tricky i hear.
My heart goes put to the people Hellas, both as a fellow Hellene (well, half), and a resident of California, where we’re seeing these wildfire storms increasingly (same climate).
Tell me what does praying do?
It’s almost like the climate is changing
no some is doing it how come we don't have it
these poor people,hope it stops asap for them
No signs of fire lines or barriers for fire to jump. People with chainsaws and tractors make fire lines to make fire containment line.
Lots of prayers 🙏and love ❤️ to all the people who suffer from all these fires
Polish guard is already on the way 46 vehicles and over 143 firefighters stay there
Much respect from Greece !
In Germany, Netherland, and Belgium, there's a lot of water because of the flood, in Turkey and Greece it's the fire that struck them and they need those water from the flood and because of air, the virus is spreading from people to people and country to country what is happening? it seems like nature is destroying humanity, is it a sign? Helping one another is the major factor here, everybody should help one another, we are nothing compared to the disaster brought by nature.
"Helping one another is the major factor here" Agreed. The main thing is to keep the tories away from these things, as they will look for a way to make a profit from it.
The problem are not the fire brigade, they are good equipped and motivated. Today they can not be everywhere, they work hard. The problem is the forestry service, they are absolutely ignorant and have never thought about preparing for fires like this. Deadwood is not removed, dry branches are piling up.
No, they cant do their job without money or employees.
The fire brigade is not well equipped. Most vehicles are over 20 years old. The foresty service has 500 employees for all over Greece!!!
@@giorgospapanikolaou2193 I do not have the actual numbers, in 2014 there where 2937 people permanently employed, now there are more and many additionally temporary workers in the forestry service in Greece.
God be with them. These are devastating times!
2:22 If you want to see the ... abstract of our situation in Greece.
are fires common in Greece during summer?
Yes, of course! They are usually arsons and after 2-3 years in the scorched earth grow hotels or wind turbines
S’agapo Love my country and want it to do good it’s just heartbreaking 🇬🇷💔💪🏻😔
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@Egi Kokla Lots of creatures die. Is it funny?😠
I have witnessed the devastating fires in my Turkey, and I can affirm you our situation is even messier than this.
ERDOGAN needs to be OVERTHROWn
Please don’t throw cigarette 🚬 but outside the car when traveling this time the year almost six months and people need to stop fireworks 🎆 should punish people who fireworks
What is the point of the EU if it's not fighting the fires as a union?
So sad.
Why EU does NOT help the poor people? The EU has proven to be a bunch of useless bureaucrats this year. Something needs to be fundamentally changed or this will be the fate of all members (and thus of the whole of Europe). They don’t deal with the fundamental problems of the community at all, and that’s what ordinary people pay too dearly for. Greece💪 GR HR
This correspondent is useless. She is full of inaccuracies, she doesn't even present numbers. In another video she was saying greeks have a custom to burn trees(??). I can assure you greeks don't have such a custom. If you are looking for the reason this wildfires started it's quiet plenty and very different from one another. Some are by accidents from outside works, others are arsons, people have been arrested with various accusations. The greek firefighter forces are considerable in terms of personnel and equipment. They are proportional to the economic capacity of the country. The conditions we are facing are extreme and most countries will have to deal with them either in form of drought, high temperatures, wildfires, extreme rain, floodes etc. As climate change proceed we will have to change our plans and find new ways of dealing with those situations. Also not every state have the ability to absorb change with the same pace.
I find very intresting the different approch DW have into presenting the devastating floods in Germany with hundreds of dead and the wildfires in Greece. I also find very interesting the toxic comment section.
DW are always doing journalism the way they want and not subjectively. Actually they do not know this term. Let them say whatever they wanna say. The truth is NOT what DW preaches though...
I feel distress for them. very Sorry for your losses.
Greece is surrounded by sea. So if the pilots of the firefighting airplanes had NIGHT VISION GOGGLES they could operate at night also and douse the forest fires swiftly.
Do they have those planes and helicopters like in USA that can collect then drop water?
wouldn't salt water wreck the soil
@@Frank75288 High chance of that. the water in MED has more salt concentration and acidic content due to its insularity from oceans.
Because of the thick smoke the night vision is not an option .
My prayers to all people in this horrible situation . Pls be strong brothers and sisters. God give them a strength .🙏🙏🙏
Praying 🙏
She expresses herself very well. Great report.
We must plant the cork oak resistant to forest fires.
Imagine in a place like California where they have many firefighters and a lot of equipment and still everything gets burned up..
thanks you you understand the problem we dont have planes! no chanel in greece says that! the goverment dont let anyone to speak tha truth
Unfortunately no government actually bought planes up to now….
@Brîndusa D we thank romania and alla the countries which are helping us
@Brîndusa D thank you very much, Romania. our government did't care about protection
Pray for those who are affected.
Earth is slowly 'sinking' like titanic and most people are doing business as usual.
Nope, dont let them steal your world. Why do you let them dictate your world to you. Tell you it's this or that. Bring dominion over your world bro.
Well, we live in an economy. It’s the Lawmaker who makes the rules.
it's invented fires
invest in bitcoin
I pray for huge rains to put out the fires
God wants it to burn or it wouldn't be on fire
My prayer are with you guys! Be strong and have faith... All things will be fine!
Serbia is sending aid to Greece, firefighters, helicopters and fire trucks are taking action! We stand with you brothers always!!
Pray for Hellas 🇷🇸💙🇬🇷🙏
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For Americans watching +40c equals approx 104F
Temperature even got up to 45-46C last week
I understand the indignation of people who see their property and homes burning and wondering where the help is,but not possible with 40 degrees Celsius temperature for a week and 112 fires simultaneously across the country,to avoid these catastrophes!Human lives are a priority.
A kind reminder from your planet.
This bad day will be end our neighbour. love from Turkey.
I am living to this Island..the island Evia(Euboea) of Greece.The fire is very big and only with the help of another countries we will can defeat this fire.
did she say this happens every year?!
Yes but its the worst this time
Yes every year a part of Greece is burning. This year, like 2018 is the worst because parts of Greece have been burning since June. These particular fires to varimpompi and evia is an act of arson
Greece has forest fires every year and frequent earthquakes.
I would rather help the firefighters instead of fleeing. Even though I'm a girl and they tell women, children and elderly to leave.
You help them by following their instructions
1:56 Did you see that dog wearing a nappy ?
Klaus Swaub says......"You will own nothing AND BE HAPPY"......?
That's why I think, life's all about having fun, having a whale 🐳🐋 of a time as long as we're alive and helping others out since we can't take anything with us when we Kick the bucket.
I was smelling the air,the smoke..I am to the southern Evia and the fire is to the north Evia.
💕💕💕 To Greece
Greece invest more in F16 jets thanin firefighters. Greece has a bad primeminister
The only person responsible for this tragedy is the prime minister:Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
ТАКОЕ ГОРЕ ...
Помоги БОЖЕ ,
Всему Живому
sorry for these affected, we pray to God to bring rain. from Kenya
Let us cooperate in saving our mother earth. And I hope all countries must act in responding climate change
In prayers 🙏
Australia, Russia, Turkey, Greece, USA are dealing with catastrophic wild fires. In other parts of the world, flooding and earthquakes, still dealing with a pandemic. Anyone else as concerned as I am that we have reached the tipping point with global warming? 🧐😱
Help from many countries arrived in Greece today.Airplanes and helicopters from Cuprys (2),France(3),Sweden(2),Croatia(1),Sweatzerland(3),Egypt(2), Spain(1) and many firefighters and fire trucks from Cyprus,France,Romania,Ukrain,israel.Tommorow help is expected from Germany,Czech Republic,Poland,Slovakia,Austria,UK,Qatar and Kuweit (Firefighters and fire trucks..THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYBODY..
May God look after them all.
Stay strong Greece!!!
You know that all these fires are not accidents, are man made, ALWAYS!
Really surprised to see no foreign firefighter rescue there to help greece out, not even from fellow european states, really shocking to see!
Romania, Israel, France, Croatia and lots more countries have already sent forces
@@eftychian5705 Britain has firefighters over too
Hello how are you doing
@@Frank75288 correct, " lots more countries" actually is Gr. Britain, Cyprus, Ukraine, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Egypt, Czech Republic, USA, Slovakia Spain, Lithuania, Germany. Thank you all ❤️ 🙂
Distant healing energy to all of you affected 💯♾️💪🕉️⚖️♎❤️
I love the Greeks very much, I hope it ends with you, love from Turkey.
Why are no measures ever taken to prevent wildfires? In Australia, in the states and in Greece.