8101020 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1166583/increase-in-burnt-areas-compared-to-2008-20-average-comes-to-500/A burnt forest in Agia Anna village on Evia island, about 181 kilometers (113 miles) north of Athens, Wednesday. [Michael Varaklas/AP] Although the number of forest fires in 2021 in Greece increased by 43% compared to the average of the period 2008-20, the degree of increase of the total area burnt....2021-08-20T22:17+0200kathimerini-en-bbc23bd2e11eed7bac04b299537b2c2420210820221700http://www.romaniapress.com/news=132675. Romania will send to Greece 142 firefighters, 8 trucks of putting out forest fires, three tanks, a command center, two Multirisc containers, an intervention vehicle, as well as other means of logistic support, among which a drone which can be used to fly by around the areas the interventions will occur.2021-08-20T21:53+0200roumanie-en-24e1e6cefb9d16e46b1a2748599f06a220210820215300http://www.romaniapress.com/news=132643. Prime Minister Florin Citu informs that a new unit of 142 firemen is going to leave for Greece on Friday to help extinguish the fires. "Greece needs help again! I have informed President Klaus Iohannis and we have decided together with the Minister of Interior to send 142 firemen to help Greece extinguish its forest fires.2021-08-20T21:53+0200roumanie-en-717ccae7e87045c851d7156bf2bb6e0620210820215300https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/french-riviera-wildfire-firefighters-1.6147879?cmp=rssFirefighters have tamed but not fully controlled a huge wildfire blazing through the backcountry of the French Riviera, the top state official in the region said Friday. The prefect of the Var region, Evence Richard, told reporters that the fire was considered stabilized, meaning it's not spreading.2021-08-20T21:43+0200CBC-13e16326c50fe1464c5b710e38d6bb1c20210820214300