What's causing all these fires in greece?

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Leonarda

It is an organised plan, and some of the guilties have been arrested...
I wont say anymore, in Greece at least we discovered the truth

Townie

Massive drought coupled with high winds and probably arsonists. Not terrorists though most likely seedy land developers.

Marcus P. Cato

While some fires are the result of criminal activity, many are caused by poor infrastructure and a typically Mediterranean disregard for standard safety procedures. In all cases, the situation was exacerbated by intense heat and draught.

To assume that all or even most fires were the result of a criminal mastermind flaunts the laws of reason, namely that the simplest explanation is preferrable to complicated ones. It also goes against the evidence currently available. Furthermore, if we posit that the fires were the result of terrorism, then we must also conclude that the fires in Albania, Italy, the FYROM, Turkey and Cyprus (earlier this summer) were also acts of terrorists.

Click below for satelite images of the Balkan peninsula on 25/7. It appears that the "terrorists" were unleashing their campaign of terror in Albania before they turned their evil gaze upon Greece.

slut male

they have been started deliberately

Frankie

IN GREECE YOU ARE NOT ALOUD TO BUILD ON ANY FORESTED LAND SO PEOPLE ARE SETTING THEM ON FIRE SO THAT THEY CAN BE BUILT ON. 2 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PICTURE SETTING THE FIRES.

Vilhelm

The media is blaming the government for not getting it under control soon enough.

I blame it on hot/dry conditions. As soon as the weather becomes more seasonal and the rains return it will be better.
In the meantime please pray for all those who have been affected by the loss of life and property.

Greece is a beautiful country that is rich in heritage and tradition. It makes me sad to see them suffer.

Fellina

149 fires in the same day is not a coincidence. I have 2 theories...

One is that the New Democracy party is involved just so they can point out the Socialist party's inadequacy (they are both one and alike... useless)

The other is that someone... from another country which I would prefer not to name as I am not certain, is striking the Greek tourist flow.

No one knows for sure and no one will ever really find the truth... as always.

anlarm

Well explained Marcus. We have had the hottest and driest summer so far in the region. Unfortunately, our environement is at great risk during summers. I don't opt out arsonists of course. There are many greedy land developers (supported by some politicians). We have seen it happen in north Cyprus. It's so tragic that beautiful Mediterranean is turning into a desert. Forest fires hurt deeply, whether they are in Cyprus, Turkey, Greece or Spain. It is our world that we are losing fast.

The Stainless Steel Rat

A whole bunch of things. Negligence, faulty power lines and arson. But there is a twist here. despite what one of the answers claims( deforesting an area to turn it over to developers) most of the fires are in areas where such a claim is meaningless. The reason they are out of control is because of inaccessibility to the areas. They are in deep gorges and the smoke makes helicopter and canadair drops impossible. A helicopter crashed in one such attempt. The fires are too many and no government in any country would be able to handle it all. So we got help from Europe and Israel. The winds are also a major factor in this unfortunate equation. This is going to have a major impact on Hellenes and the government has a lot of rethinking to do.

Zoi ((Î–Ï‰Î®))

Dear redD,
Would you be so dum to believe that 170 fires in just 3 days could be something a quinsidance?
Of course, someone is behind all this thing. But the question is not who is putting them, but who gives the commands to have them put.
Greece tryed so hard to persuade that we don't have any terrorists (it is true we don't).
Life is not unsafe here, in fact Greece has very little criminality comparing to other well organised countries, you can walk safely even in 2 in the night (except Athens, a city of 5 million people).
My personal opinion is that these fires, that are bejond any imagination, are complitely connected to the greek elections of 16 September, financially or politicaly connected to them (I hope you understand me). Isn't it obvious?
The surprising is that new fires were set on even the 3d and 4th day of the disaster, that means that the responcibles were expecting the fires to be so DISASTEROUS.
I can't say further.

cheek_of_it_all

Arson. Wouldn't surprise me if it terrorists that are doing it.

willow

They thinks its arsonists and have arrested 36 people, and they've just had an earthquake.

The original Peter G

The first fire may well have been accidental, but many of the subsequent ones are almost certainly set by land owners wanting to clear the forest for development. Greece has no national register of land use, so while you can't clear forest to build on, when it's all ashes it's only the owners word as to whether it it is forest or not

chrisvoulg1

there are arsonists indeed, but also there are also natural causes

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