Leader vows overhaul of disaster response after fire
The prime minister of Greece pledged Thursday to overhaul the national disaster response agency as authorities publicly named the people killed by the country’s deadliest forest fire in decades.
The fire “deeply wounded all of us,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. “But we have a duty to take a deep and careful look at everything that happened, to learn and to correct possible lapses.”
Tsipras said the General Secretariat for Civil Protection would be replaced by an agency that brings together security forces, the military, health services, academics and volunteers.