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Europe's Hottest City Scorches Past 40 Degrees, Struggles To Stay Cool Amid Influx Of Tourists
The Athens Acropolis faces closures during peak heat as record temperatures and wildfires threaten Greece's most-visited site, highlighting the growing impact of climate change on tourism and cultural heritage.
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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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Foreigner Arrested For Allegedly Starting Greece Wildfire: Report
Greek police on Monday arrested a man suspected of starting an ongoing wildfire near Athens fuelled by a heatwave and strong winds, firefighters said.
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Wildfire Near Greece Capital Forces Evacuation Of Seaside Resorts
A wildfire broke out near Athens on Monday as a heatwave grips the country, firefighters said, with several seaside resorts ordered to evacuate as a precaution.
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Hundreds Evacuated After Wildfire Cases Surge In Suburbs Of Greece
Hundreds of people were evacuated early Wednesday as firefighters deployed planes and helicopters to fight a surging wildfire in mountainside suburbs north of Athens for a second day.
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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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Greece Battles Wildfires For Fifth Day In "Nightmarish Summer"
Flames swept through a town near Athens overnight and hundreds of people were evacuated by ferry from the island of Evia as wildfires burned across Greece for a fifth day on Saturday.
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"Where Are We Going To Go?" Residents Flee As Fires Reach Athens Suburbs
Yorgos Papaioannou spent four hours using a garden hose to try to save his newly-built home from a blazing wildfire, until police patrolling his suburb north of Athens ordered him and his girlfriend to leave.
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Smoke From Greek Island Ravaged By Wildfires Reaches Athens
A large wildfire fanned by strong winds burned tracts of pine forest on the Greek island of Evia, firefighters said on Tuesday, with evacuation ordered of two villages in the path of the flames.
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Wildfires Kill At Least 74 In Greece: Fire Service
The death toll from wildfires ravaging the region around the Greek capital Athens rose to 74 on Tuesday, a firefighting official said.
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Unable To Escape, Families Die In Embrace As Greece Wildfire Kills 60
Wildfires sweeping through a Greek resort town killed at least 60 people, officials said, including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to flee the flames.
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Greek Wildfire Kills At Least 50 Near Athens, Families Flee To Beaches
A wildfire killed at least 50 people and injured more than 150 as it swept through a small resort town near Athens, with huge flames trapping families with children as they fled.
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Wildfire Rages Near Greece's Athens, Forcing Residents To Flee Homes
A wildfire raged uncontrolled in a coastal region east of Athens on Monday, causing people to flee their homes and sending huge plumes of smoke over the capital.
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Europe's Hottest City Scorches Past 40 Degrees, Struggles To Stay Cool Amid Influx Of Tourists
The Athens Acropolis faces closures during peak heat as record temperatures and wildfires threaten Greece's most-visited site, highlighting the growing impact of climate change on tourism and cultural heritage.
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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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Foreigner Arrested For Allegedly Starting Greece Wildfire: Report
Greek police on Monday arrested a man suspected of starting an ongoing wildfire near Athens fuelled by a heatwave and strong winds, firefighters said.
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Wildfire Near Greece Capital Forces Evacuation Of Seaside Resorts
A wildfire broke out near Athens on Monday as a heatwave grips the country, firefighters said, with several seaside resorts ordered to evacuate as a precaution.
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Hundreds Evacuated After Wildfire Cases Surge In Suburbs Of Greece
Hundreds of people were evacuated early Wednesday as firefighters deployed planes and helicopters to fight a surging wildfire in mountainside suburbs north of Athens for a second day.
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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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Greece Battles Wildfires For Fifth Day In "Nightmarish Summer"
Flames swept through a town near Athens overnight and hundreds of people were evacuated by ferry from the island of Evia as wildfires burned across Greece for a fifth day on Saturday.
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"Where Are We Going To Go?" Residents Flee As Fires Reach Athens Suburbs
Yorgos Papaioannou spent four hours using a garden hose to try to save his newly-built home from a blazing wildfire, until police patrolling his suburb north of Athens ordered him and his girlfriend to leave.
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Smoke From Greek Island Ravaged By Wildfires Reaches Athens
A large wildfire fanned by strong winds burned tracts of pine forest on the Greek island of Evia, firefighters said on Tuesday, with evacuation ordered of two villages in the path of the flames.
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Wildfires Kill At Least 74 In Greece: Fire Service
The death toll from wildfires ravaging the region around the Greek capital Athens rose to 74 on Tuesday, a firefighting official said.
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Unable To Escape, Families Die In Embrace As Greece Wildfire Kills 60
Wildfires sweeping through a Greek resort town killed at least 60 people, officials said, including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to flee the flames.
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Greek Wildfire Kills At Least 50 Near Athens, Families Flee To Beaches
A wildfire killed at least 50 people and injured more than 150 as it swept through a small resort town near Athens, with huge flames trapping families with children as they fled.
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Wildfire Rages Near Greece's Athens, Forcing Residents To Flee Homes
A wildfire raged uncontrolled in a coastal region east of Athens on Monday, causing people to flee their homes and sending huge plumes of smoke over the capital.
