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A man-made wildfire has broken out on an island near Athens. Authorities have arrested 13

Facing a season of deadly summer fires, a man-made wildfire has broken out on an island near Athens. Authorities have arrested 13 of them.

Fireworks set off from a yacht led to the arrest by Greek authorities on Saturday. Hydra Island's mayor expressed "outrage" after the fire broke out late Friday and called for legal action against those responsible. At least one person has already died in dozens of wildfires that have broken out in Greece this week.

The latest blaze was "caused by fireworks from a boat, setting fire to the island's only pine forest in a hard-to-access, roadless area," Hydra's firefighting team said on Facebook.

The fire service said in a statement that 13 people who were allegedly involved in the firework had been arrested after an investigation by the fire service and would appear before the prosecutor on Sunday. No details about the accused were given. Greece has tightened penalties for arson, with offenders now facing up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to 200,000.

Another fire broke out on Andros Island on Saturday, emergency services said. Four villages were evacuated and planes and helicopters were brought in to waterbomb the fire. The civil protection service called for extreme caution as the risk of fire is "very high", especially in the Attica region, the Peloponnese peninsula and central Greece.

Authorities have warned that strong winds and high temperatures have increased the risk, and Greece is now facing a sweltering summer. After the warmest winter on record, the Mediterranean country recorded its first heatwave of the year, with temperatures soaring above 44 degrees Celsius in some places.

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