Plea for Help as Fire and Destruction Advance on Athens


	Plea for Help as Fire and Destruction Advance on Athens

abailart

8-24-2009 2:46 AM

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8-24-2009 11:26 AM

Kelika

I really feel for Athens. Our fire season in California is about to start, too.

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<P class="tagline">Greek authorities in plea for help as they struggle to fight flames </p> <P class="author">
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					By Elinda Labropoulou in Athens and Claire Soares</AUTHOR>
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			<P class="info"><EM>Monday, 24 August 2009</EM></P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/thousands-flee-as-fire-and-destruction-advance-on-athens-1776495.html">Raging fires were closing in on the Greek capital Athens last night, having already forced thousands of people to flee, razed acres and acres of forest and olive groves, and demolished scores of buildings in the northern suburbs.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/thousands-flee-as-fire-and-destruction-advance-on-athens-1776495.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.independent.co.uk/img/0FB8BD18-0744-4C10-ACA3-4BC3C781D4A1" alt="A man watches the wildfires spread across Mount Penteli, Athens, yesterday " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/thousands-flee-as-fire-and-destruction-advance-on-athens-1776495.html">Struggling to extinguish the blazes, which sent black clouds of smoke spewing over the Acropolis, the Greek government called on EU allies for reinforcements. Italian planes joined the 20 Greek aircraft dumping gallons of water on the flames, and more were expected from France and Cyprus. "The fire is raging, rekindled by the constant change in the wind's direction," said fire brigade spokesman Giannis Kapakis.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1201AD9F-F7CA-417F-A665-BA985837533A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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