"My brother's apartment on the upper floor which was damaged was his primary residence. Now we will try to collect our pieces and rebuild everything. What can we do? The most important thing is that lives were lost and all this is gone. Can you see what has happened here? Can you? This was a lung," she said pointing to the pine forest which was burned down.
Roula and other residents who survived the nightmare were narrating heartbreaking stories of family tragedies next door. Mary, an elderly lady chose to stay with her bedridden husband inside their home at Mati. They died together. Others talked about people perishing in the sea next to them.
Greek citizens nationwide also expressed their solidarity with people in the fire-stricken areas. People queued to donate blood for the injured or medical and food supplies. In social media, others offered to open their homes to families left homeless.
The Greek government has also received numerous messages of solidarity and support from countries across the world. Personnel and water dropping aircrafts from Cyprus and Spain were assisting Greek forces on Tuesday to contain the last fronts.
While the situation at eastern Attica had improved by Tuesday sunset, as a precautionary move, authorities evacuated three communities near Loutraki and a children's camp in the Alepochori area in western Attica, as the fire in Kineta, 50 km west of Athens, picked up on Tuesday, Greek national news agency AMNA reported.
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