Greek firefighters battled on Wednesday to bring under control a wildfire that has devastated over 4,000 hectares 10,000 acres of land on Chios , Greece's fifth-largest island, over the past four days.
The island, located in the northern Aegean Sea, is currently grappling with five separate fires.
"The fire has not yet been fully contained but its intensity is diminishing," a fire service official told AFP.
Authorities have deployed around 400 firefighters, supported by 85 vehicles, four water-bombing planes, and seven helicopters, though sporadic flare-ups persist mainly in the island's southern areas.
A Georgian woman employed as a house cleaner was detained on Tuesday after confessing to discarding a cigarette butt that is believed to have sparked the blaze, according to reports from the Greek news agency ANA and fire officials.