Accident Pace to a long string of catastrophes that have occurred in recent years. This time the disaster was not natural, but man-made.

We have learned to attribute natural disasters to “theomen”, the elements of nature. Thus, sixteen years after the fires of Elijah and five years after the fires of Mati, when a total of 163 people died, one still believes in the reasons linking these disasters with “asymmetric threats” and “common wind”. The same was heard about the flood in Thessaly (“Ianos”), which was “unprecedented”, and about the snow “Medea”, which was “unprecedented”. Of course, events of this intensity in a country with a well-organized Civil Protection and a clear policy to counteract natural disasters would cause much less disasters.