Wildfires in Greece are creeping ever closer to its capital.

Hello, live from the UK.

This is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Sarah Rogers in for Leanna Byrne. We start the program in Greece where

wildfires have closed in on the outskirts of the capital of Athens. One person has

died and thousands of people have had to leave their homes and

businesses. The fire started some 20 miles away from the capital on Sunday.

It hurts. We've grown up in the forest. We feel great sadness and anger.

Well Greece is now in its peak season with tourists heading to the country for the vacations,

but wildfires have become more common in recent years due to climate change,

including one already this year in June after an early heat wave,

the amount of damage is yet to be revealed the BBC's Jessica Parker is in Athens. It's difficult to say at this

point because obviously a lot of the areas that are really badly affected

you can't yet go to but thousands of people have been evacuated hospitals have

been evacuated people are incredibly worried about their homes their businesses and now wildfarts in this area have happened before.

This is a known and very real risk for people who live here or maybe for people as well who come on holiday here or head to the coast.

And actually it wasn't that long ago back in 2018 that over a hundred people died in a seaside town in the areas

a blaze ripped through there.

So it is a very known danger, but I think again,

people are angry and they are upset that they're in this position again once again after it's

obviously happened over a number of years.

The BBC's Jessica Parker,, let's do the numbers.

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