Brannen ble slukket med god hjelp av styrker og materiale fra
fastlandet, bragt ut med ferge og helikoptere, samt
4 "vannbombe-fly".
Tusen takk!
Ingen hjem gikk tapt, ingen menneskeliv, så
tross alt var vi heldige! Dessverre brant 300 mål pinje skog i
området opp fra Agnondas og mot Stafilos. Noe synlig fra veien
mellom dem.
Agnondas, startet brannen her?
Did the fire start here?
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The fire got under control
thanks to also help from the mainland, brought out with ferry and
helicopters, and the "water-dropping-planes".
Thanks a lot!
No homes lost, no lives
lost,
- so one may say we were lucky after all! Unfortunately 300 acres
of pine forest burned in the area up from Agnondas and against
Stafilos. You can see some of it from
the road.
Burned areas up close to the
helicopter landing platform.
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Greek firefighting equipment and
manpower
* 8,500 firefighters (4,000
vacancies)
* 3,000 seasonal (fully trained)
firefighters
* 82 fire trucks
* 13 Canadair (CL-215)
water-bombers (the first five were purchased in 1975, the last one
in 1990)
* 10 Canadair (CL-415)
water-bombers (purchased 10 years ago)
* Twenty PZL M-18 Dromader
planes
(fire-extinguishing and crop-dusting craft)
* 6 Grumman biplanes (two-wing
aircraft)
* 2 army Chinook CH-47D
helicopters with so-called Bambi buckets used to dip water from a
variety of sources for fire suppression
* 13 helicopters (rented for the
fire season, between May and October)
(Source: airforce,
fire department)
Athens
News 6/7-2007
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2007;
"På skolen lærer ungene å gjøre
korsets tegn, men ikke at det er farlig å kaste flasker og
sneiper i naturen!" - skrev Aftenposten.
Brannene har krevet nesten 70 liv, ca 6000
hjem og ca 270,000 dekar, - skog, olivenlunder og dyrket land har
brent. Største skade siden de begynte å måle i 1950.
Karamanlis lover at alle skal få erstattet
sine hus.
De fleste hadde jo ikke forsikring, det er ikke vanlig!
Krise i landet, folk er husløse uten håp,
hva skal de leve av?
Det var et stort TV maraton torsdag kveld,
arrangert av en del av de store, frie TV kanalene, innsamling til
brannoffrene. Da jeg gikk å la meg hadde de samlet inn
11.358.875,- Euro -
ca 96,5 mill NOK.
Bravo!
Det var alt fra 5,- Euro eller en bamse fra små barn, til
skikkelige beløp fra private og bedrifter!
Endelig skal det gjøres noe!
Hele landet skal fotograferes fra luften, og det skal komme en lov
som sier at der det var skog, der skal det forbli/laves ny skog!
Så enkelt er det!
Da kan ingen brenne skog og så be om å få byggetillatelse et
sted det akkurat da ikke er skog,
- fordi den har brent.
Skopelos er så heldig; så få branner, og
ingen alvorlige i år!
En av grunnene er at mye av skogene eies av klostre på Mount
Athos, nord i landet
- The
Holy Mountain!
De vil ikke bygge her!
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Fires
2007;
"In school children learns
to make the cross (religious), but they do not learn the danger of
throwing glass and cigarette buds in the nature!" Wrote a
Norwegian newspaper.
The fires took about 70 lives,
about 6000 homes and 270.000 acres forest, olivegroves and other
land. Biggest fires since they started to measure them in 1950.
Karamanlis has promised new
homes to everybody.
Most did not have insurance, not common here!
Big crises in the country,
people are homeless with not much hope!
How to survive?
Thursday night it was a big TV
marathon, arranged by some of the big, free TV channels,
collecting for the fire victims. When I went to bed they had
collected
11.358.875,- Euro.
Bravo!
It was all from 5,- Euros or a teddy bear from children, to good
amounts from private or businesses!
Finally something will be done!
The whole country shall be photographed from the air and a law is
going to be made.
Where there is forest, it shall remind forest. It is very simple.
Nobody can burn a forest and then build on it, it has to be
replanted!
That should solve the "fire-problems" in Greece.
Skopelos is lucky; so few fires
this year, none serious!
One of the reasons is that a lot of land here is owned by some monasteries
up at Month Athos,
- The
Holy Mountain!
They do not want to build here!
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