An aerial view shows parts of the village of Kiotari destroyed during a forest fire. In the southeast of the vacation island of Rhodes, people continue to fight the flames. Christoph Reichwein/dpa
As high summer temperatures persist in Greece, bush and forest fires broke out on Saturday near the ancient site of Olympia on the peninsula of Peloponnese. Civil defence authorities ordered the evacuation of several villages a few kilometres northwest of Olympia as a precaution, via warning text messages and Twitter. Roads in the area were also closed. The emergency services said 29 fire crews, five planes and a helicopter were deployed. Wildfires broke out in many parts of the country this month as temperatures rose above 40 degrees Celsius. For the first time in more than a week, the author...
