An evacuation by sea was in progress Friday afternoon at Agios Vasileios, a coastal settlement in the central Greek regional unit of Viotia on the Gulf of Corinth, as about 500 residents and visitors flee a fast-moving wildfire that has surrounded the village.

Coast Guard personnel and members of the European Union's Frontex border agency evacuated 31 people who were fleeing the huge wildfire blazing through southern Crete from beaches…

A major wildfire burning near Agios Vasileios, a coastal settlement in Viotia in central Greece, left around 500 people, mostly summer visitors, stranded in the area on Friday as…