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shame on al jazeera. like many countries around the mediterranean greece suffers from the dangerous summer waterfall but the one that africa coast in july twenty teen was the worst in the country's history claiming ninety nine lives and leaving thousands of others traumatized and homeless so why was it so deadly reporter eric campbell went to investigate.

it's way down the mountain like a vengeful god was overbearing people was in our. will where. it will take a while yet yet many think that. it's a resort town just thirty minutes drive from athens we're going to fade over a single part that went right through since i was there one wonders that there were not more people. ninety nine people died with no warning of the danger and no attempted evacuation was eaten up stoppable freak of nature or staggering incompetence this was an all of cost at a time of peace it was not an accident it was a crime and it is

a crime demanding justice and punishment. it's how war zones look when the fighting stops. the red cross patrolling the scorched earth tending to survivors. were loaded with. every day medical teams visit victims like zahara yes constant tarkus still living in his ravaged home if i was. going to think you did know maybe you know getting range the. mood. this year on the road don't know much about bum bum bum bum bum who is going to go model guys i got the eighty four year old air force veteran raced over burning bits of men that melted his shoes to bring two children to safety that was so low so you know they knew so

you know. there's your clothes fuck you build up on the ass kicked out of your way is you the tough tough luck of. getting mad at. every home every family has a story of survival this is who thinks i was a straw man to man i'm sure. ileus covenant palace nearly died right in his motorbike through flames to find and rescue his mother. how is your mother now. the fire. but. i will try to fix my. bliss i will put some through is. something that. i'm alive so. keep going. i feel very legit. really good.

in the was a small but i'm not. in greek much he means by as in of the north wind blows almost incessantly on shore. but for days the bureau of meteorology had warned of unusual wind in the opposite direction sweeping down from the hills to the coast. on the morning of july twenty third many of marty's firefighting resources were sent to a blaze sixty kilometers away. but it for

forty nine pm a second fire broke out in the. hills above. it was more than two hours before a fire brigade helicopter was diverted to tromp water. unit commander you'll be sent on a cupolas says by then the wind speed was more than one hundred kilometers per hour . and yes to me. it was a joke at the nonstick me but i think it was going to get better as. it was already too late the fire had reached the coast suddenly residents and daytrippers were surrounded by smoke and flames the roads were soon gridlocked then blocked by burning cars the only hope of escape was the same. money that. they tried to jam. like. the.

schoolteacher maria does illy lives on the waterfront but even she feared she die. marcy is built on cliffs with few puffs to the water and almost none unmarked getting in the water but this mild all around us fire their hands on part of a larry i find of the day i can say you knew that there was that down to the back down because you were like that because i live here that's why i love you so how many people were sheltering here on this beach where around thirty people thirty it's a whole area yes we were like sardines yeah did you feel safe once you were down here no first all right if i'm out and people were around crying here people were asking for their families yeah there were mothers kurang for

their children it was a case. over there we can see the pulpit rufino with the tourists there is demagogues in the ruins yes as you pull the folder thirtieth. look at our moment we called them again and again and we called our final families to inform them but they didn't and. so who finally rescued you. just a small facing bones. only seven hundred people were eventually picked up by ashleigh tiller of small boats and because god many drowned or died of birds as they waited. a. moment to full full of this community gathers in

a church that was somehow spayed by the infant to farewell nearly one hundred loved ones. undressed dimitri who was one of the firemen battling the blaze as soon as he heard the flames when he his home he raced back to try to save his family. he found his wife margarita dying by the water's edge she was alongside the body of the six month old son. is on the up or the. zoltan up or the girls are free up or do you think. or more of all cave on is this . going on in a god. of the borders. you know the dog. in the gut if yes and i'm. caught in a south of us with or false. this

all happened in the midst of a horrid northern hemisphere summer temperatures off the charts across europe but grace was the exception this was an unusually mild summer with more rain than normal this was not a file links to climate change it could have happened any summer the authorities knew that they just weren't ready for it. so how did the greek government at its emergency services fail so comprehensively i've come to greece's most pristine just research center to make the one man who i have answered this well conversely welcome to the government coming nice building we're going to be responded constance in the lucky says a crisis management expert and a member of the academy of athens he was commissioned by an opposition party to interview survivors and to piece together what went wrong. critically surprised and

shocked by the stories of the people and. what what happened there was absolutely no pre-planning in greece because there is no culture planning for big public emergencies most people including the government are in complete denial things don't happen here. one of his most disturbing discoveries was that police had directed intimacy believing the coastal highway behind the town would act as a fire break. and they said they've heard the traffic through the smaller streets which again in effect blocked and created the gridlock so even the people who tried to prevent it from the smaller streets. and other people who had absolutely nothing to do with my doing live there they were. actually diverted into harm's way that

made the absolutely no sense. even more surprising but the actions of the coast got it not only failed to send rescue boats in time for hours it allowed to rest ferries to continue arriving the coast guard did not stop ferries the old coming in the port of the free now which is very close which was again horrible mistake because ferries unload a lot of cars it is odd to the traffic load you do not at the moment you do not want to have more cars from the road you want to have him of the roads open us open as possible because you want to move traffic away where is the government in all of this i mean the number one responsibility of coming government is protecting its citizens this is the number one responsibility everything else comes second and here. government failed completely. the.

wrong careless three layers. weeks on the survivors a demand in the government pay for what happened if you like he lived with the option of meet him in his regional medical center for the night. exam i think she died. five this was actually meant to be a night of celebrations here in the parliament because this is the official end of the day here by allows its mips to be a milestone symbolizing a new beginning for the race but the many the buy is the real symbol of what greece is they come up to eight he's been focused on stereotype. of. the monks of greece's long economic crisis their ext into the streets of athens games during the civil. hof

a million people from a population of eleven million have moved to brood in search of jobs so. they've lived behind a nation crippled by debt now running up one hundred eighty percent of g.d.p. . you almost a thought as was economics minister in the leftwing sirus a government that swept to power three years ago. and how much has society being hood by those ideas have been forced all sorry i think it was because more than any other side there with the exception of world wars. is. a lot of there's regard shall refer to the be twenty five but sir. that's a huge reduction by himself base where. forty percent of people live in the average

incomes and wages salaries thanks so so the cost was huge you know when the emergency services have been hit as hard as any. firefighters ahead wages steadily cut they even have to buy their own uniforms. this unit is based in a complex that was the pride of the two thousand and four athens olympics they were called out until nine pm long after the fire had destroyed the town. demitra stuff opal is a senior fire officer and president of the firefighters union he says ten of the station's fifteen trucks are out of actual. fire oh i'm not the only one on the market. obviously to me and i love it.

was often more of a company that's i got. in there with two years gallon of a cup and that's. when you. don't bend over against us in every year of your team there. at the corner. i won't talk to a human up out of. their skin i think you have to view them as this and you know my son to be here. he says the national fire fighting budget has been cut by twenty percent since two thousand and ten. autonomy on unfair or except yours was my support from you on the tarmac so most of those were going to get out of this was. the blame game started even before marty stopped smoldering the heads of the national police and fire brigade was sacked the minister for public golda resigned some claim that's not enough the

politicians and e.u. officials have blood on their hands. zooming constanta a pool it was serious is speaking of parliament and the close ally of prime minister alexis tsipras until they split over austerity cuts. i think it's very very clear that austerity measures imposed upon our country have led not just to misery and suffering but also to deaths when you remove sovereignty from account train when you demand rats. an illegal debt is repaid. by the blood. of the people because this is what has been happening we've been paying with our own blood for a debt that they created and when i say they i'm talking about the governments the greek governments but also the european governments that the creditors governments

and the german and french banks which were those responsible for the larger part of greece's so-called current debt whether there would come to be a better outcome. if. you know under different circumstances. with without use there would be. it's hard to say. defense is you know lucky since it's cutbacks would no excuse for the lack of planning all coordination. he believes they had enough water bombing a craft to slow the blaze they just didn't say that. i think certainly if we had and what my research shows is that if we fire fighting. operational. without delay the spread of the fire by your least an hour an hour and

a half some of those you can say to an hour would have been enough to trigger a cub in your creation to have saved a lot of. it wasn't just the failings on the day that killed so many it was government policy stretching back decades. of all the terrible side see this unremarkable property that's now sealed off is the most powerful because a crowd of people came running through here trying to get to the say blinded by smoke they found themselves trapped the edge with no escape twenty six people including parents and their young children died and. each other's arms. allegations would later emerge that the property and fence should not have been there like many waterfront homes it was built without permission on public land

this is a unique phenomenon in southern europe where a lot of brits areas were short. they were looked in the sixty's in the seventy's with me once the houses are built in the fences of their member government comes in and builds commutes reverse unfortunately the wrong the wrong way of going about. illegal construction was tolerated in part because the builders paid heavy fines and taxes income desperately needed in the financial crisis this government which is trying to blame it on those illegal houses was the government who photo and in two thousand and seventeen a law to legalize all illegal constructions. the first demolitions of fire damaged houses many riddled with as best as a staged as

a media event. the government now says it will demolish more than three thousand homes built of legally on beach fronts and in forests. that have a buffer against will be there for the. first world war approached workable or scorpio . with none of the promises to prevent it from hunger epicurus obviously everywheres greece's infrastructure minister christos spirits is concedes austerity has affected fire readiness but he argues this fire was so exterior no amount of technology could have stopped it. in the front row so we have phenomena a gun and are going to hear from them is one of the from the street in the middle of which nigger woman will be one of the producers and then it off if it doesn't look we give the weaknesses of it's christmas cruisers what else can i make it but

it was wonderful remember us and i'll never be forgotten in the group of people and . it's pain and humiliation for a country that prides itself on being a cradle of civilization. greece didn't just give the world democracy in mythology its cults brought forth five. murals in the academy of athens tell the legend of per be theists who defied zeus to get the lights of fire and learning to the people it was for gives permissions and hercules closing it frees him from the mountain but i don't think in this particular case zeus is going to forgive the people who are responsible for what happened.

like everyone in this tight knit community helios covered up on the skis trying to come to terms with the loss. of form a d.j. he was famous for his policies on his homemade sound system. and music is my life i mean this guy has to look like and this close to look like a cloud. but ten of his friends died in the flames music has become his salvation. they were listening to music i was very calm but. yes i think. i have one. and i would feel that they would be with

us but the memories would have to forget we have to leave i mean the monster love. making films. i was. in the backyard of the fun and enjoy is to me trees home there's a shrine to his wife margarita and the sun i had to get named. then the four north up with a novel should think several of jennifer most and for most all of them for most will not sell for opals not for most of them off the mill but for most. then. i get to think several. up to finagle for a moment all of our listeners the motherboard's reform that i don't know if the

support from all the black and landscape is a daily reminder of the catastrophe that took them from him still in deep shock he somehow finds the strength to carry on. for one of your future you're going to continue to be a fire fighter. you navan you up oh. the young man on the phone about having. it done a performer arjuna performer and bring your mom. got the pre-modern i thought far more than some monarch of the promise of us and his number . will determine this great tragedy will never happen again.

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