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Fires burned 170,000 ha in Greece during 2023 - 70.8% destroyed in August fires [vid]
The fires that broke out in Greece since the start of 2023 burned a total of 170,000 hectares (1.7 million stremmas), with 120,000 of these (1.2 mln stremmas) destroyed in the August fires alone, the National Observatory for Forest Fires (NOFF) said on Wednesday.