It spent 500 million euros ($578 million) on a relief effort for people who lost their homes and businesses in the fires this summer, an amount roughly equivalent to the annual firefighting budget. The government says it is reviewing the country’s firefighting capability, including equipment and staffing levels. I don’t know what kind of disaster has to happen - more fires? More floods? - for the message to get through.” “They have repeatedly been promised proper jobs. “Contract firefighters put their heart and soul into the effort to battle the fires over the summer,” Farandakis said. Greece has more than 15,000 firefighters during the summer months, about 5,000 of them on short-term contracts or hired seasonally. That means we need better resources to deal with its effects,” Alexandros Farandakis, head of the contract workers’ firefighting association, told the AP. “People talk about climate change and we know from science that it’s happening.
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On Friday, protest organizers said some 2,000 firefighters have short-term contracts, renewed every five years or less. In the wake of the fires, the government created the new climate crisis ministry, headed by the Cypriot-born former European Union Commissioner Christos Stylianides. Hundreds of firefighters from European Union nations and nearby countries came to Greece to support the effort. Massive fires this summer burned more than 1,000 square kilometers (385 square miles) of forest on the island of Evia and in southern Greece, as heatwaves scorched southeast Europe.
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The protesters, wearing their firefighting uniforms, blocked traffic outside the newly-created Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry north of the capital.
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One firefighter was hurt by a stun grenade and five others were detained after police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse the demonstrators. ATHENS, Greece: Police clashed in Athens Friday with protesting firefighters demanding job contracts in the wake of massive wildfires.