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Plumes of smoke rise above the now-evacuated fire-ravaged village of Kiotari on the Greek island of Rhodes as the blazes continue to ravage the island for a fifth consecutive day. Thousands of locals and tourists fled the Aegean island over the weekend in what authorities called the country's largest-ever wildfire evacuation. IMAGES
Emergency services battle forest fires in Santa Juana, Chile, where the death toll from blazes has risen to 22. The fires, sparked by a devastating heat wave, have threatened several rural towns, destroying at least 88 homes and sweeping through 47,000 hectares (116,000 acres) of forest, according to officials. IMAGES
A video released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine shows firefighters trying to extinguish fires in the Mykolaiv region, in southern Ukraine, after shelling hit residential buildings. IMAGES
Ait Daoud, Aug 13 (EFE) .- Algeria managed to extinguish in the last 24 hours a total of 76 fires out of the hundred that have devastated the north of the country since last Monday and that have claimed the lives of at least 73 people 25 of them military, with the support of tanker planes deployed by Spain and France.(Camera: MHOAMED MESSARA)SHOT LIST: THE FIRES AND HOUSES AFFECTED IN AIT DAOUD, IN EASTERN ALGERIA.
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
With only branches, residents of Evia island in Greece fight desperately to control wildfires that have charred vast areas of pine forest, destroyed homes and forced tourists and locals to flee. IMAGES