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Firefighters pump h2o pursuing a flood astatine the colony of Agia Anna, astatine the bluish portion of Evia island, Greece, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. The wildfires that destroyed a 3rd of the island's forests successful aboriginal August person loosened the topsoil and respective communities are astatine hazard from flooding. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou)

ATHENS – Authorities connected the Greek land of Evia said Monday that much than 200 homes were damaged by play flooding, with astir of the affected areas near unprotected successful the aftermath of immense summertime wildfires.

The floods besides damaged roads successful the northbound of the island, and besides caused harm connected adjacent areas of the cardinal Greek mainland. Authorities are racing to wide the damage, utilizing earthmovers to wide riverbed blockages, earlier much terrible upwind expected aboriginal this week.

Evia was the country hardest deed by wildfires successful August and aboriginal September that damaged much than 1,000 quadrate kilometers (390 quadrate miles) of mostly forestland successful Greece. More than 20 countries sent firefighters, water-dropping planes, and different instrumentality to Greece to assistance incorporate the worst fires successful much than a decade.

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