Description
Activation time (UTC): 2021-08-06 08:32:00
Event time (UTC): 2021-08-04 16:44:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
Α wildfire is raging from Wednesday in Diabolitsi Municipality at Western Greece Region, burning down large forests of pine and rural areas. The fire is still active on several fonts. The moderate wind, high temperatures and high flammability of forest fuels, make the work of firefighters very difficult. The areas, Diabolitsi, Ano Melpeia and Kato Melpeia have been ordered to evacuate for precautionary reasons after a fire broke out. According to Fire Service 36 firefighters with 24 vehicles are currently operating in the area, assisted by 18 ground force firefighters, thirteen helicopters and eight planes.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 7
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/jrc/en
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2021): Wildfire in Diabolitsi, Greece (2021-08-06). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/1d630c37-0221-41d2-95f9-a250eb985034
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Emergency Copernicus EMS Emergency Management GRC Greece EMSR532 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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GEO | POLYGON((21.900232340914 37.419353998495,22.235533086373 37.419353998495,22.235533086373 37.188064715,21.900232340914 37.188064715,21.900232340914 37.419353998495)) |
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Lineage information
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-08-16
- Modified date
- 2021-09-03
- Issued date
- 2021-08-06
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR532
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/1d630c37-0221-41d2-95f9-a250eb985034
- Popularity
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