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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A half constructed house burns as a wildfire rages for the second day in Pallini, north of Athens on July 20, 2022. - Greece, scorched by a heatwave ravaging parts of Europe, deployed planes and helicopters on July 20, 2022, to stop wildfires from spreading to mountainside suburbs north of Athens. (Photo by Aris Oikonomou / AFP
2022-07-20 14:09:03
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.
Nearly 500 firefighters, 120 vehicles, three planes and four helicopters swung into action from dawn to battle the flames from spreading to the suburbs of Penteli, Pallini, Anthousa and Gerakas, which is home to some 29,000 people.
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