The fast-spreading wildfire has already blazed through several neighborhoods near Athens, prompting Greek officials to ask people to evacuate quickly.

The fire has also turned deadly, as at least one person has died after a burned body was found in a building in the town of Chalandri, which is only 5 miles away from Athens.

By Tuesday, more than 700 firefighters had been deployed to fight this blaze. Meanwhile, 199 vehicles and 35 aircraft equipped with water bombing were also attacking this fire.

Greek fire officials have stated that France, Czech Republic, Italy, Romania, Serbia and Turkey have all helped.

As a result, Greek officials have publicly ordered evacuations in many areas near Athens. However, many people have chosen to stay behind to try to stop the blaze from destroying their homes and properties.

The fire has also been able to spread because of unburnt forest, which allows it to quickly light up.

To make matters worse, the fire has many areas of wooded terrain that it can burn through as it makes its way toward the Greek capital.

Penteli is a town at the foot of Mount Penteli. Around this area lies much-wooded terrain, which could only help the fire grow.

Increasing worries have become founded, as wildfires are currently threatening the National Observatory of Athens’ premises, which was created in 1842.

Many people have had to flee their homes. While doing so, they’ve also seen countless animals from the forested areas struggling to escape these raging wildfires.

This led to many tourists going missing — with their bodies eventually being discovered after days of searching — because of this excessive heat. Now, that heat wave has dried out the area and made it ideal for wildfires to blaze out of control.

Far from being an isolated story, the narrative of a region experiencing record-breaking climate measurements, to then be devastated by some sort of extreme weather event, is becoming an alarmingly common one all around the globe.

A North California fire that burned across just under 4,000 acres recently sadly destroyed 13 homes, damaged a further five and destroyed 13 other minor structures before the danger had passed.

So severe was the situation that California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency shortly after the fire began, with local emergencies also declared as the fire threatened critical infrastructure.

Almost 17,000 people were impacted by mandatory evacuation orders. Infrastructure was also impacted, with Pacific Gas & Electric being forced to de-energize high-voltage powerlines, taking the Hyatt Powerplant offline.

This meant that Californians saw Oroville’s ever popular Fourth of July fireworks show cancelled, as the city enforced a temporary ban on fireworks in the wake of the wildfire.

Mongolia, a nation accustomed to harsh winters, actually experienced the impact of incredibly extreme cold weather conditions that had far reaching consequences on the well-being of its population, both in terms of health and economic stability.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Mongolia experienced the highest snowfall it had seen in 49 years over the winter. At the peak of the Dzud, 90% of Mongolian territory was covered with snow.

It’s estimated that this latest barrage of cold weather led to the death of just over 11% of the country’s total livestock.

Many families had lost more than 70% of their livestock — their main source of income. It could take up to a decade for many locals to recover from the devastation of the extreme cold weather.

But this is the second consecutive harsh Dzud experienced by the nation and the fifth in ten years. Similarly, Greece experienced multiple wildfires in 2023. What is concerning is that these extreme, ostensibly abnormal weather events are become worryingly commonplace.

India recently experienced a record heat wave, and Germany was battered with heavy flooding. It appears that every few months there are catastrophic weather disruptions being reported somewhere.

The European Environment Agency reports that extreme weather events are only expected to become more frequent and more intense as we feel the effects of climate change. Such events pose a risk to nature, industry, infrastructure and human life wherever they hit.

However, they have also explained that unusually hot temperatures and dry weather — which has become common because of global warming — have made these fires much fiercer and deadlier than ever before.