<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Greece on Tuesday was battling a growing wildfire front that killed two and forced widespread evacuations in the second deadly wave of fires in a month.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blazes burned unchecked in northeastern Greece, the islands of Evia and Kythnos and the region of Boeotia north of Athens, amid a dangerous mix of gale-force winds and temperatures of up to 41 degrees Celsius (106 Fahrenheit).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There are nine active fronts... it's a similar situation to July," a fire department spokeswoman told AFP, referring to a wave that left five dead.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Late Monday an evacuation was ordered at the hospital of Alexandroupolis, a northeastern Greek port city in an area where fires are raging for a fourth day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The coastguard said it had moved 65 patients to a waiting ferry at the city harbour.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the island of Evia, near the capital, officials late Monday evacuated the industrial town of Nea Artaki, where the fire has damaged poultry and pork farms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The flames were also threatening the national park of Dadia, where the body of a man believed to be an undocumented migrant was found late Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An elderly shepherd had also been found dead in the Boeotia region earlier Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dadia is one of the most important protected areas in Europe, offers an ideal habitat for rare birds and is home to the only breeding population of black vultures in the Balkans.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The European Union announced it was deploying two Cyprus-based firefighting aircraft and a Romanian firefighting team via the bloc's civil protection mechanism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The very hot and dry conditions which increase the fire risk will persist until Friday, according to meteorologists.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amid a heatwave, a fire that started on July 18 and was fanned by strong winds ravaged almost 17,770 hectares (more than 43,000 acres) in 10 days in the south of Rhodes, a popular tourist island in the southeastern Aegean Sea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Around 20,000 people, mostly tourists, had to be evacuated. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>