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The village Askordalos or Skordalou, lies at a distance of 20 km away from the city of Hania at the feet of the White Mountains and 10 km far from Lakkoi village. It is one of the greenest villages in Crete with the oldest olive orchards in Crete and in Europe and the main income of its people comes from olive oil (tsounati variety).
By the end of October 2004, a sudden hot wind storm from Africa caused an electricity pole wire to break. This started a wild fire, which very quickly spread around so much that no one could control it. Twenty-four hours later, the whole region around the village had burnt almost to the ground.
The damage was unprecedented: sixty thousand olive trees over 400 hundred years old had been burnt. The village had been ruined both financially and ecologically.
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