Name: ギリシャの山火事が鎮圧されたと消防当局が発表｜BBCニュース (Greece wildfires brought under control, says fire service | BBC News)
Uploaded: 2024-08-14T13:13:05.000Z
Duration: 3 min 35 s

Next to Greece, and you may well have seen the images of those wildfires that have been threatening the capital, Athens.

ギリシャの次は、首都アテネを脅かしている山火事の映像をご覧になった方も多いだろう。

Well, the good news is authorities say they've been brought under control.

まあ、当局によれば、事態は収拾に向かったとのことだ。

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At least one person died, dozens injured, thousands of others had to leave their homes.

少なくとも1人が死亡、数十人が負傷し、数千人が家を離れなければならなかった。

Greek media reporting more than 100 buildings have been damaged around the capital.

ギリシャのメディアは、首都周辺で100棟以上の建物が被害を受けたと報じている。

Officials also said that less than 10% of the burnt areas were forests.

また関係者によると、焼失した地域のうち森林は1割にも満たないという。

Let's speak to our correspondent, Azadeh Mashiri, who's in a suburb of Athens.

アテネ郊外にいるアザデ・マシリ記者に話を聞こう。

Hi Azadeh, just talk us through where you are first of all.

こんにちは、アザデさん。まず、あなたが今いる場所を教えてください。

Well Lewis, today is all about assessing the damage and obviously you can see some of that around me.

ルイス、今日はダメージを見極めることが重要だ。

Now this is a suburb of Athens because this year the wildfires have come to the capital and if you look behind me you'll notice that there's a collapsed basketball hoop.

ここはアテネの郊外にある。今年、山火事が首都まで押し寄せているからだ。

This was a basketball court before the fires came here and over here are stands where rows of children would come to watch their friends play.

ここは、火災が起きる前はバスケットボールのコートだった。

Now a staff member told me about 500 children used to come here every day and if you look at the pictures, the photos of what this used to look like beforehand, you can see the scale of the damage.

スタッフの話によると、以前は毎日500人ほどの子供たちがここに来ていたそうだ。

I can see the sky above me, I shouldn't be able to do that but the rooftop was the very first thing that caught fire.

頭上には空が見える。そんなことはできないはずなのに、屋上が真っ先に燃えてしまった。

Now I've also seen helicopters fly over dowsing the land with water because there is this concern that there could still be flare-ups but what the government is particularly focused on is how to help communities like this, these people who've lost businesses like this, rebuild and so 4.7 million euros has been allocated to that effort.

しかし、政府が特に力を入れているのは、このようなコミュニティや、このように事業を失った人々の再建をいかに支援するかということであり、そのために470万ユーロが割り当てられた。

We know that nearly 650 people were offered temporary housing since Sunday, people who were at risk and who were affected by these fires and yet of course no matter how much help they receive, it'll be a long time before businesses like this can get up and running again.

日曜日以降、650人近くが仮設住宅を提供され、危険にさらされている人々や火災の影響を受けている人々がいる。

And Azadeh, just talk us through the background here because this is a part of the world that is used to very hot conditions at certain times of years.

アザデ、この背景について話してくれ。この地域は、ある時期には非常に暑い状況に慣れている。

What has been the trends, what has been happening over the years?

この数年、どのようなトレンドがあったのでしょうか？

ギリシャでは山火事は珍しくない。

I was here last year when they hit the islands as well when roads in particular sent hundreds of tourists fleeing from their hotel rooms as the fires approached all their accommodation and of course six years ago there was a devastating summer where more than a hundred people were killed in the seaside town of Mati where the fires consumed homes, cars, people were even killed as they were trying to swim away to safety and so yes none of this is uncommon to Greece but the temperatures have been rising.

もちろん6年前には、海辺の町マティで100人以上が死亡した悲惨な夏があり、火災が家屋や車を焼き尽くし、泳いで逃げようとした人たちまでもが犠牲になった。

It's been the hottest July, June and July on record and what scientists say is that these sorts of conditions, the dry heat, the winds, these are what are contributing to these wildfires and that global warming, climate change could be contributing to the severity and the frequency of these fires and if you speak to people in Greece, residents themselves, they say these temperatures, the way that they have to live their summers, they say it's not normal.

科学者によれば、このような状況、乾燥した暑さ、風、これらが山火事の原因であり、地球温暖化、気候変動が山火事の深刻さと頻度を高めている可能性がある。