The day is extremely difficult on Saturday (26.07.2025), with multiple fronts burning forests across the territory – ongoing fire which occurred at 13:35 in a grassland area between Pontocom and Mavropigi outside Ptolemais, in the regional unit Kozani.
They are operating 24 firefighters with 11 vehicles, project machinery and municipal aquifers.
Temporarily, due to limited visibility from tobacco and to facilitate firefighters, the release of the Egnatia Road vertical axis has been interrupted at the 10th kilometer of Kozani-Ptolemais.
The traffic is carried out by the Old Highway.