Ongoing is the Great fire raging in Patraswith the fronts now burning the areas of Romanou, Aroi and Diakou, threatening houses and institutions. In the area is the Mayor of Patras, Costas Peletidis, who stated that “Karamandanio” and “Constantopoulos” are evacuated, as well as the surrounding areas.
In a statement to the media, the mayor expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the situation, stressing that the city was reaching this point because there were no necessary firefighters to deal with the fire, “means we were begging them”.
“Unfortunately, the result proves that our city is burning from their inadequacy,” he said characteristically, stressing the criticality of the situation.
‘Canadair attempted for a few hours and then disappeared’
Mr Peletidis expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the lack of firefighters, stating that “Canadair helped for a few hours but unfortunately disappeared”. He pointed out that the authorities “underestimated the fire in our city”, which resulted in it could not be controlled.
The mayor of the Achaic capital was belling the alarm, as the front of the fire is about one kilometer from the city center.