“How could we hide the casualties? You can’t hide casualties, but neither can you speculate about them.” How ironic. If you didn’t know that this quote belonged to the prime minister of the Greek government in 2018, when more than a hundred people perished in a wildfire in the East Attica seaside town of Mati, in a chaotic breakdown of communication and response by the state services, it would be impossible to disagree.

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