Most of the southern island of Crete, as well as Rhodes, faces a maximum risk of wildfire Friday, authorities said, while nearly the entire remaining Aegean Sea archipelago and all the Ionian islands are at a very high risk.

Scores of firefighters, backed by water-dropping aircraft, battled two forest fires in northern Greece, as authorities warned that the western Ionian Sea islands faced a major…

The alert comes as Greece is at the height of the summer holiday season, with beaches packed with both domestic and international tourists. #EuropeNews