UK only reporting about this now?
i've seen this quite entire week on german news shows
RTL Aktuell and
Tagesschau
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis blames this on climate change, basically they had been coping same as Turkey with a very bad heatwave, between 43C and 46C
i've looked now what weather is like now in athens region on our weather site Weerplaza (currently 32C and still very dry and the entire 2 weeks remain dry so this will remain tough struggle for the firefighters)