The unsung heroes of the Evros fires

Using “traditional” methods of digging the earth, clearing branches and leaves and chopping tree trunks, dozens of residents from the Pomak villages of Petrolofos and Sidirochori, together with forest workers, managed to save 10,000 hectares of woodland by creating a 10-13-km-long containment zone during the devastating wildfires in Evros, northeastern Greece.