On the Greek island of Evia last summer an intense conflagration took almost two weeks to control.
World leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow are under pressure to respond to global warming, and intense heatwaves and frequent forest fires are becoming an increasing threat around the Mediterranean.
With more heatwaves forecast for future summers, there are fears that megafires could become the new normal. Nikos says the authorities mishandled the fire. "I feel angry, because I didn't expect this catastrophe to happen. For sure, climate change is a factor but the fire shouldn't have been allowed to grow so big. They are responsible. They burned us and they know it."
"The climate crisis is here," he said. "We have done what was humanly possible but that was not enough." Foresters say the pinewoods will eventually regenerate if they can be protected from future fires - but the trees will take up to 30 years to grow back.
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