{"id":20220,"date":"2026-08-25T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/fire-destroys-35n-cretan-distillery-building-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:54:44","slug":"fire-destroys-35n-cretan-distillery-building-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/fire-destroys-35n-cretan-distillery-building-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Destroys 35N Cretan Distillery Building \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<h3 id=\"h-a-major-fire-broke-out-on-tuesday-afternoon-at-35n-cretan-distillery-a-tsikoudia-distillery-located-in-the-sfakaki-area-of-rethymno-near-the-heraklion-estavromenos-national-road\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A major fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon at <strong>35N Cretan Distillery<\/strong>, a tsikoudia distillery located in the Sfakaki area of Rethymno, near the Heraklion Estavromenos National Road.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fire Department was alerted at around 12:15 p.m., triggering an immediate response. A total of 21 firefighters, a team from the 3rd EMODE hiking unit and seven fire engines rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blaze caused extensive damage, completely destroying the distillery building. Firefighters managed to contain the flames within the premises and prevent the fire from spreading to nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No employees were injured or placed in danger. According to information available, all workers were in the company yard carrying out outdoor tasks when the fire broke out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Heraklion Arson Investigation Team was mobilized to examine the circumstances surrounding the incident and determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>35N Cretan Distillery<\/strong>, based in Crete, produces traditional Cretan spirits, including tsikoudia.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t35N Cretan Distillery, Cretan distillery, Crete, Crete fire, fire in Crete, Greece, Greek news, greek news today, Rethymno, Rethymno fire, Sfakaki, tsikoudia distillery\t<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e431a0aaf2dcb7e221a3bd95d4b4996106e91f12afa178bba01dd45d1cdacc01?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e431a0aaf2dcb7e221a3bd95d4b4996106e91f12afa178bba01dd45d1cdacc01?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Athens Bureau<\/h5>\n<p>Athens Bureau is Greek City Times\u2019 news desk in Athens, reporting on Greek politics, society, economy, culture, and breaking national news for readers in Greece and the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa-solid fa-link\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/08\/26\/rethymno-fire-35n-cretan-distillery\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon at 35N Cretan Distillery, a tsikoudia distillery located in the Sfakaki area of Rethymno, near the Heraklion Estavromenos National Road. The Fire Department was alerted at around 12:15 p.m., triggering an immediate response. A total of 21 firefighters, a team from the 3rd EMODE hiking unit and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Fire Destroys 35N Cretan Distillery Building \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/25\/fire-destroys-35n-cretan-distillery-building-greek-city-times\/#more-20220\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fire Destroys 35N Cretan Distillery Building \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773967135-27960136486981688-8060568030104248-n-1536x1152-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}