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“Being part of an operation like this fills you with
a sense of pride while at the same time leaving
you heartbroken by the sheer devastation.”
Panourgias Papaioannou, co-founder of Interkat S.A,
the construction arm of Papaioannou Group

“I’m proud we could help the local authorities
with the fires and keep losses to a minimum.”
Kostas Topalidis, owner of Topalidis Konstantinos Company

“When you do what we did, you have to put your faith
in your machinery, and Eltrak really delivered for us.”
Hercules Styliaras, Managing Director of P. Samaras S.A.

even closer, they could only protect the buildings called Eltrak, and within 30 minutes we had a
themselves. “I will never forget the aftermath. The new hose delivered and were back to work.”
fire had destroyed everything, everything except the
houses, standing up proud amongst the ashes.” The day after Eltrak stepped up once
again by hiring as many generator sets as
Another customer, Kostas Topalidis, owner of Topalidis possible, to bring electricity to the area.
Konstantinos Company has nothing but admiration for
what he put his Cat equipment through. “Working at “I now look back,” says Hercules, “and realise how
the southeast of Grevena, we were fighting the flame special a thing I had been a part of; we made a
non-stop for five days and our Cat machines didn’t let real difference to people’s lives. As one person
us down. I’m proud we could help the local authorities said to me, I don’t know who Samaras S.A. is,
with the fires and keep losses to a minimum.” but I have a home tomorrow because of you.”

Hercules was equally grateful to Eltrak. “You have There is one way to finish this article, and that is to add
to put your faith in your machinery. But, a dozer is our own heartfelt thank you to Panourgias, Hercules and
not a forest machine, and we had a situation where Kostas, all their men and everyone else who stepped
a tree branch pierced a hose. It was particularly up to face those fires and help their fellow man. ■
dangerous with the fire creeping closer. But we

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