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Greek Woman, 44, Intentionally Starts 2 Wildfires To "Watch Firefighters" And "Flirt With Them": Report
A 44-year-old woman in Greece was arrested after it was discovered that she intentionally started two wildfires because "she enjoyed watching firefighters and flirting with them".
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Body Found Inside Burned-Out Athens Factory As Wildfire Continues To Spread
A woman's body was found early Tuesday inside a burned-out Athens factory, state news agency ANA said, in what is believed to be the first reported death from a disastrous wildfire that has scorched the city's northeastern suburbs.
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Thousands Flee Their Homes After Wildfires Bear Down On Greek Capital
Thousands of people fled their homes around Athens on Monday, including in the historic town of Marathon, as strong winds fanned a wall of wildfire flames closer to the Greek capital.
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Residents Flee As Greece Wildfires Spread Despite "Superhuman" Efforts
Greece ordered the evacuation of hospitals and homes near Athens Monday as wildfires spread despite "superhuman" efforts to combat the flames, the fire brigade said.
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Fireworks From Yacht Spark Forest Fire On Greek Island, 13 Arrested
The incident has caused widespread outrage in Greece, which is already grappling with multiple wildfires amidst its first heatwave of the year.
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Greek PM Vows For "Restart" After Criticism Over Handling Of Fires, Floods
Faced with criticism for his alleged poor handling of the fires and floods that struck Greece this summer, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged fresh funding and reforms in order to fight the "climate war".
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Greece Scrambles To Put Out Wildfires Raging For 2 Weeks Amid Wind Threat
Greek fire crews on Thursday scrambled to put out wildfires raging for two weeks around the country that left five dead before strong winds forecast for the day rekindle blazes.
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Video: Firefighting Plane's Wing Clips Tree, Crashes Seconds Later
A Greek water-bombing plane crashed Tuesday while battling a forest fire on the island of Evia as hundreds of firefighters struggled to beat back blazes still raging in Rhodes and Corfu amid a new wave of soaring temperatures.
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Cargo Plane Crashes In Greece: Report
A cargo aircraft crashed late Saturday near Paleochori Kavalas in northern Greece, the fire brigade said.
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2 Killed As Greek Firefighting Helicopter Crashes Into Sea
Two people were killed after a firefighting helicopter with four crew members aboard crashed into the sea off Greece, the coastguard and fire service said on Thursday.
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Greece Evacuates Capital's Outskirts Under Wildfire Threat
A wildfire whipped by gale-force winds blazed through vegetation in a southern suburb of Athens on Saturday, the fire brigade said, forcing residents to evacuate and damaging about 20 properties.
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First Body Found On Greek Ferry After Fire, 1 Rescued, 10 Still Missing
Rescuers searching for missing passengers aboard a ferry ablaze off the Greek island of Corfu for three days, on Sunday recovered the body of a trucker from his charred vehicle, the first confirmed fatality.
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"We Saw Death In Front Of Us": Passengers Recount Greece-Italy Ferry Fire Ordeal
Shocked and sleep-deprived, passengers rescued from a Greece-Italy ferry that caught fire off the island of Corfu said on Saturday they felt relieved to be alive, though some feared for their livelihoods after losing trucks and cargos.
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11 Missing, 2 Trapped After Greek Ferry Carrying Nearly 300 Catches Fire
A fire broke out Friday on an Italian-flagged cruise ship sailing through the Mediterranean's Ionian Sea with 237 passengers and 51 crew on board, according to Greek port police.
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Over 100,000 Hectares Burned As Greece Faces "Ecological Disaster" From Wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters battled Thursday to contain new flare-ups in wildfire-ravaged areas of Greece, where summer infernos have caused what the prime minister described as the country's "greatest ecological disaster in decades".
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Greek Woman, 44, Intentionally Starts 2 Wildfires To "Watch Firefighters" And "Flirt With Them": Report
A 44-year-old woman in Greece was arrested after it was discovered that she intentionally started two wildfires because "she enjoyed watching firefighters and flirting with them".
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Body Found Inside Burned-Out Athens Factory As Wildfire Continues To Spread
A woman's body was found early Tuesday inside a burned-out Athens factory, state news agency ANA said, in what is believed to be the first reported death from a disastrous wildfire that has scorched the city's northeastern suburbs.
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Thousands Flee Their Homes After Wildfires Bear Down On Greek Capital
Thousands of people fled their homes around Athens on Monday, including in the historic town of Marathon, as strong winds fanned a wall of wildfire flames closer to the Greek capital.
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Residents Flee As Greece Wildfires Spread Despite "Superhuman" Efforts
Greece ordered the evacuation of hospitals and homes near Athens Monday as wildfires spread despite "superhuman" efforts to combat the flames, the fire brigade said.
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Fireworks From Yacht Spark Forest Fire On Greek Island, 13 Arrested
The incident has caused widespread outrage in Greece, which is already grappling with multiple wildfires amidst its first heatwave of the year.
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Greek PM Vows For "Restart" After Criticism Over Handling Of Fires, Floods
Faced with criticism for his alleged poor handling of the fires and floods that struck Greece this summer, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged fresh funding and reforms in order to fight the "climate war".
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Greece Scrambles To Put Out Wildfires Raging For 2 Weeks Amid Wind Threat
Greek fire crews on Thursday scrambled to put out wildfires raging for two weeks around the country that left five dead before strong winds forecast for the day rekindle blazes.
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Video: Firefighting Plane's Wing Clips Tree, Crashes Seconds Later
A Greek water-bombing plane crashed Tuesday while battling a forest fire on the island of Evia as hundreds of firefighters struggled to beat back blazes still raging in Rhodes and Corfu amid a new wave of soaring temperatures.
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Cargo Plane Crashes In Greece: Report
A cargo aircraft crashed late Saturday near Paleochori Kavalas in northern Greece, the fire brigade said.
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2 Killed As Greek Firefighting Helicopter Crashes Into Sea
Two people were killed after a firefighting helicopter with four crew members aboard crashed into the sea off Greece, the coastguard and fire service said on Thursday.
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Greece Evacuates Capital's Outskirts Under Wildfire Threat
A wildfire whipped by gale-force winds blazed through vegetation in a southern suburb of Athens on Saturday, the fire brigade said, forcing residents to evacuate and damaging about 20 properties.
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First Body Found On Greek Ferry After Fire, 1 Rescued, 10 Still Missing
Rescuers searching for missing passengers aboard a ferry ablaze off the Greek island of Corfu for three days, on Sunday recovered the body of a trucker from his charred vehicle, the first confirmed fatality.
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"We Saw Death In Front Of Us": Passengers Recount Greece-Italy Ferry Fire Ordeal
Shocked and sleep-deprived, passengers rescued from a Greece-Italy ferry that caught fire off the island of Corfu said on Saturday they felt relieved to be alive, though some feared for their livelihoods after losing trucks and cargos.
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11 Missing, 2 Trapped After Greek Ferry Carrying Nearly 300 Catches Fire
A fire broke out Friday on an Italian-flagged cruise ship sailing through the Mediterranean's Ionian Sea with 237 passengers and 51 crew on board, according to Greek port police.
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Over 100,000 Hectares Burned As Greece Faces "Ecological Disaster" From Wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters battled Thursday to contain new flare-ups in wildfire-ravaged areas of Greece, where summer infernos have caused what the prime minister described as the country's "greatest ecological disaster in decades".
