According to him, the timely evacuation of the settlement will save the lives of dozens of people left defenseless in the destructive course fire in the eyesrepeated forensic expert Dimitris Liotsios on the sixth day of his testimony.

The fire chief, who answers questions from victims’ lawyers, said the recommendation for evacuation should have been made from 5:30 p.m. on the fateful day, and stressed that the fire reached Mati at 6:20 p.m. According to him: “There are at least 25 passages to the sea. From Marathon Avenue to the sea, 850 meters. The only difficult part is in Kokkino Limanaki. In the rest of the territory, all roads lead to the sea. Distance for an average person to the sea is about 20 minutes. People voluntarily left in their cars. At 18:00 the mayor’s message (that they are not in danger) people calmed down. The people were not informed that the fire was heading to the specified area.”

Dodging questions, the witness returned to the issue of aircraft, stating that it did not appear that fire helicopters could not land that day.