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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Scores of passengers and crew have been rescued from a fire that engulfed an Italy-bound ferry with 290 people on board near the Greek island of Corfu, authorities said Friday.
BARI, Italy (AP) -- Fighting high winds and stormy seas, helicopter rescue crews on Monday evacuated hundreds of people trapped aboard a Greek ferry that caught fire off Albania. The death toll ...
The fire department said 100 firefighters, including contingents from France and Cyprus, backed up by four helicopters, brought fires in four outlying areas near the Greek capital under partial ...
The Hellenic Fire Service (Greek: Πυροσβεστικό Σώμα, romanized: Pyrosvestiko Soma - Firefighting Uniformed Corps of Greece) is the national fire and rescue service of Greece. It is part of the Ministry for Citizen Protection .
Samson – On 7 March the ferry was caught in Cyclone Gafilo off the Madagascan coast when it sank. Two of the 113 aboard survived. [28] 111 2023 Nigeria: On 12 June, a boat carrying wedding guests capsized on the Niger River in the Pategi district of Kwara State. At least 106 people were confirmed dead while more than 100 others were rescued ...
SS Heraklion (sometimes spelled out in books as the Iraklion) was a roll on/roll off car ferry operating the lines Piraeus – Chania and Piraeus – Heraklion (Irakleio) between 1965 and 1966. The ship capsized and sank on 8 December 1966 in the Aegean Sea , resulting in the death of more than 200 people.
Around 2,500 people have already been evacuated from Corfu, fire officials said, which is experiencing dozens of wildfires, after the blaze in Rhodes prompted “the biggest evacuation” in Greek ...
The fire broke out in the parking deck, probably in a truck. Euroferry Olympia was brought closer to the north Corfu coast to offer better protection from the wind. [4] The ship was later towed to Astakos to complete the fire-fighting and by 23 March the bodies of the eleven missing passengers had been recovered. [6] [7]