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The Chicago Tribune reports:
The death toll from Greece's deadliest wildfires in decades climbed to 74 Tuesday as rescue crews searched on land and sea for those who sought to escape the blazes that engulfed popular summer resort spots near Athens.
The number of victims appeared set to go even higher, with crews checking charred homes and vehicles and the coast guard scouring beaches and deeper waters. There was no definitive count of the missing.
Meanwhile, in a later story, The Guardian reports:
The number of deaths from the worst forest fires in Greece for more than a decade has risen to 80 as rescue workers intensified efforts to locate those who had gone missing.
Officials said crews were going from house to house and car to car in seaside communities ravaged by the wildfires near Athens on Wednesday.
The death of an 84-year-old, who had been one of an estimated 187 people injured, pushed the count up from 79 officially pronounced dead by the fire service.
At least nine people were in intensive care and 11 children had been taken to hospital, authorities said.
[...] Constantine Michalos, who heads the Athens chamber of commerce and industry, said the dead fires were spread by gale-force winds of up to 77mph and were “changing direction on a minute-by-minute basis”, making rescue operations particularly difficult.
The story also provides a link to a map of the fires.
Also at The Washington Post.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @07:47AM (7 children)
Fugling SN eds, monolingual at best, only TMB is any good at the cunnilingus. Lives could have been saved, now it is on the eds. My Theo have mercy on your psyches.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:01AM
Strange how guilt, as the TMB pointed out in his Journal, results in down-mods. Our Eds have killed Greeks. They are not sorry. So I really, really, hope the re-vote on Brexit goes the right way, and the Scotland succeeds from the UK, that Nothern Ireland is just another name for the Northern part of Ireland, and that the Damn Queen has to have tea with Donald Trump!!! Oh, and return the Elgin Marbles. It is about time. Bloody Poms.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:48AM (5 children)
I'll defer the judgement on this to a better prepared to appreciate Soylentil.
If none volunteers for it willingly, I reckon it is understandable and this matter will remain a mystery.
(back to you, Azuma)
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:29AM (4 children)
I'm 5'6", overweight, over 40, not way above average in the package dept, and still never go without sex when I deciide it's worth the bother. You're welcome to try coming up with alternative explanations for all the repeat business I get.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:01PM (3 children)
As a part of the... ummm... enquiry, your word cannot be objectively taken into account - even more so after we established you can't tell the difference between objective and subjective.
I'll wait for an independent party with no vested interest, thank you.
(large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:27PM
Not possible. Anyone who's got the experience to provide data isn't going to be any more objective than any other kind of junkie. It's a burden at times to make sure I only use my powers in a responsible manner.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:29PM (1 child)
Do you mean that you're about to take off your vest?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:48PM
ha... ha... bravó.
That was a "good" one.