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...drove down my street, four fire engines were heading to fight the blaze. I saw firefighters in their full gear. They were running from house to house pounding on doors. To the left of them, houses were on fire; to the right, the hillside was on fire. They stood their ground...
...such competitions as the X Games, the Paris-to-Dakar rally and the Race of Champions. But there were no survivors last weekend when the helicopter that McRae was piloting crashed near his home in Lanark, Scotland. McRae, his son Johnny, 5, and two others died in the blaze. McRae...
...mercy of nature? Or saboteurs? Either way, Greek emergency crews and soldiers scrambled across the country Monday, trying to rescue scores of people trapped behind towering flames razing villages, forests and farmland to ashen grounds and molds of charred carcasses. Driven by strong and hot winds, the blazes have killed at least 64 people, including six children, in the worst wildfires to hit Greece in nearly two centuries. "It's a living nightmare," says Roula Baziotopoulou, standing on the tip of a craggy cliff, watching flames close in on the home she was born in, near the heart...
...This week alone, firefighting fatigue claimed the lives of four people - two firefighters and two civilians - upping the death toll to nine since the start of the season. Blazes continued to rage in all corners of the country, razing thousands of crops, scores of livestock and a number of homes. Hordes of tourists were forced to evacuate hotels and holiday resorts, fleeing Greece as local governors declared states of emergency in a raft of districts and islands. Bewildered by the crisis, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis purportedly scrapped plans for an early election, turning instead to Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...attention from the hundreds of firefighters on hand, a neighboring building soon caught fire. We smelled gasoline. The fire coursed rapidly through the building, until it entirely engulfed the soon-charred structure. The press and onlookers stole closer for a better look; I got within 50 yards. The second blaze culminated in a series of explosions that scattered our retinue and signaled the building’s collapse, which we watched in horror. The smoke and smell of burning rubber became unbearable. We watched as the firefighters struggled to move trucks and water-guns into position to fight a clearly...