Description
Activation time (UTC): 2018-10-26 08:43:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-10-25 03:40:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
A forest fire broke out in 25-10-2018 in Sithonia area, 100 Km southeast from Thessaloniki in a pine forest. The village of Sarti is under threat and the relocation of its residents is under consideration as a preventative measure.
According to Fire Service 142 personnel with 69 vehicles, plus 32 hand crew firefighters, plus 4 firefighting airplanes and 5 firefighting helicopters, are involved in the operation to bring the fire under control.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 2
Grading products: 1
Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2018): Forest Fire in Sithonia, Greece (2018-10-26). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/b91584ec-c979-4aef-9289-a4e8d5cb9606
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR331 GRC Greece Mapping Rapid Mapping Wildfire
Data access
All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.
Spatial coverage
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WKT | POLYGON ((23.8903929438 40.1419252439, 24.0041323389 40.1419252439, 24.0041323389 40.0705327951, 23.8903929438 40.0705327951, 23.8903929438 40.1419252439)) |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-19
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2018-10-26
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR331
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/b91584ec-c979-4aef-9289-a4e8d5cb9606
- Popularity
-