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Firefighters are deployed in the suburbs of Athens as Greece orders evacuations over ongoing wildfires. Thousands of residents near the Greek capital fled their homes on Monday, including in the historic town of Marathon. According to officials, emergency services are working around the clock with "superhuman" efforts to contain the fires. IMAGES
A forest blaze in Greece is "the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU" says Balazs Ujvari, a spokesperson for the block, who also announces the mobilisation of nearly half the EU's firefighting air wing to tackle it. "We have mobilised 12 aircraft from our rescue fleet together with over 400 firefighters and 60 vehicles" he explains. SOUNDBITE
Firefighting helicopters drop water on a fire on Greece's Mount Parnitha near Athens, in the largest forest adjoining the capital, threatening a national park for a second day. A fire department spokesman told state television ERT there was an "explosion of fire" in a forest ravine early on August 24 that renewed the threat to inhabited areas. IMAGES
A fire burns near the Greek village of Avgaria, where Greek, Serb and Slovak firefighters are conducting an operation to slow and stop the spread of the flames. IMAGES
Wildfires on the island of Evia have charred vast areas of pine forest, destroyed homes and forced tourists and locals to flee. Blazes also continue to rage in the Peloponnese region in the southwest, but fires in a northern suburb of Athens have subsided. IMAGES
Images show firefighters at the site of a motorcycle warehouse that caught fire in an industrial area of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. IMAGES
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