The most significant blaze took hold in the Hilltown area of Co Down on Saturday.

People have been asked to avoid the area.

The National Incident Management Team at Irish Water has been meeting this morning to discuss the "escalating" situation.

Thousands of asylum seekers have spent a fourth night sleeping in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos, after successive fires destroyed a notoriously overcrowded migrant and refugee camp during a coronavirus lockdown.

Thousands of protesting refugees and migrants left homeless on the Greek island of Lesbos after fires destroyed the overcrowded Moria camp gathered on a road leading to the island’s main town, demanding to be allowed to leave.

Thousands of refugees and migrants have spent a third night in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos after two successive nights of fires in the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp left them homeless.

A second fire in Greece’s notoriously overcrowded Moria migrant camp destroyed nearly everything that had been spared in the original blaze, Greece’s migration ministry said Thursday, leaving thousands more people in need of emergency housing.

Greek firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft are battling a string of wildfires near Athens and in other parts of the country. Strong winds whipping up the flames are hampering firefighters’ efforts. No injuries have been reported.

Fire has swept through Greece’s largest refugee camp, which had been placed under Covid-19 lockdown, leaving more than 12,000 migrants in emergency need of shelter on the island of Lesbos.