A wildfire broke out on Evia island, on Monday, between the villages of Petries and Krieza on the eastern side of the island.
Residents of Krieza and Kokkina, received a 112 message asking them to evacuate towards safer areas.
Authorities closed the road connecting central and southern Evia.
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned recently of a difficult summer ahead for the country.
He noted that the battle against the fires would last a long time, as Greece was only now entering the heart of the firefighting season, and that “it will certainly not be won without the assistance of the citizens, especially in the field of prevention.”
Last winter was the warmest since modern records began being kept in 1960, according to the National Observatory of Athens, which analyzed European Union satellite data. The six warmest Greek winters on record have occurred in the past decade.
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