Fires broke out in several regions of Greece on Saturday, including in fields and close to rural communities. Firefighting teams are battling the blazes.

The fire broke out early on Wednesday at a waste disposal site.

Temperatures have returned to seasonal norms, but the winds have picked up, putting several of Greece's regions on high alert for fires.

The blaze near Anavyssos, southeast of Athens, generated a notification towards local residents to evacuate the immediate region

While courtrooms deliberate and governments legislate, those who survived the 2018 fire continue to bear the real cost of the catastrophe

End-of-the-season blaze erupts on well-known eastern Aegean Island on Saturday afternoon

The officeholder in the Xylokastro municipality is accused of 'smoking' beehives in a rural area during a high-risk period for fires; blaze killed two people

A portion of the same prefecture, Ilia, was devastated by a multi-front wildfire in August 2007, that claimed 36 lives

The wildfire managed to take enormous proportions, reaching a united front of 32 kilometers, its smoke painting skies crimson across Greece

Flames have reached as far as the mountain resort settlement of Trikala, with a front burning in remote and inaccessible land

A six-kilometer stretch of the main Athens-Patras tollway near the resort town of Xylokastro was closed, with traffic diverted to a provincial roadway

Two men died in the massive blaze, while according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), the burned areas in the region reach nearly 4,200 hectares

Minister of Civil Protection Vassilis Kikilias held an emergency coordination meeting to assess the situation and organize forces for the night

An arrest warrant was issued for the woman’s 17-year-old son on felony charges of actually causing the blazes

While proving to be a relief in many cases, concerns over flooding arose, especially where wildfires scorched forest and brushland this past month

The site on Rhodes where the blaze is raging is described as remote and rugged, while gusty winds are plaguing fire-fighting efforts

Findings released of urgent culture ministry inspections of archaeological sites, other monuments in parts of NE Attica prefecture affected by last week’s wildfire

The fire brigade order the shutdown of power along the main north-south rail line near the Litochoro statrion, in north-central Greece

Two major blazes on the day in Kozani, Thesprotia prefectures

One of the 34 fires in northern Greece has been burning for almost a month, as explosions from discarded war-time ordnance, mines hamper ground units