SKIES ABOVE EVIA TURN ORANGE

The smoke and ash from the fire on Evia, a rugged island of forests and coves almost touching the Greek mainland, blocked out the sun, turning the sky orange as the blaze rampaged across the northern part of the island.

Evias fire is the most severe of dozens that have broken out across Greece in the past week, after the country was baked by its worst heat wave in three decades which sent temperatures soaring to 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) for days.

The heat, coming amid what has already been a particularly hot summer, has turned Greeces forests, including large areas of easily flammable pine trees, into bone-dry tinderboxes.

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