A large wildfire has scorched 25,000 acres of land — twice the size of Manhattan — on the fringes of Athens, the capital of and largest city in Greece, according to European satellite images shared on Wednesday (Aug. 14).
The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) posted an image to X (formerly Twitter) showing the extent of the damage a day after hundreds of firefighters succeeded in containing what had become Greece's worst wildfire this year.
