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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: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:48PM (3 children)
Maybe you're telling us, you rejected his Sub because you don't do Greek. That would be a lie. Because you, @martyb, ran the story about the Fake Vaccine. And you put Greek into that one. The Sub had NO GREEK, you put it in. So you write in Greek. And probably you read Greek. You expect us to read it -- so long as it's something YOU wrote. If it's something @aristarchus wrote or it came from the Greek newspaper, it's a problem for you. And by the way, the Fake Vaccine is from China, that was a story about China. Where so many folks speak Chinese. But not many speak Greek. This one is about Greece. Where it's the opposite!!!
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:34PM (2 children)
Whoooosh! Nope. Not even close. It's called a sense of humor; the story submission title was entirely in Greek. I responded with:
Which saying [wikipedia.org] dates way back to the time of William Shakespeare:
As for the use of Greek in the 'dept' line of Fake Vaccine Scandal at Chinese Drugmaker Changsheng Biotechnology Co [soylentnews.org]? It was copied, verbatim, from this page on Wikipedia: Primum non nocere [wikipedia.org]. I found THAT page when I searched for the phrase "First, do no harm."
Here is that dept line in its entirety:
A search on Google for that phrase returned, as its first entry, the Wikipedia page on the Hippocratic Oath [wikipedia.org].
So, quite simply, I can actually cut-and-paste Greek. Sorry it's not very impressive, but it is what it is.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:56PM (1 child)
I think you'd do very well in politics. Because @aristarchus asked a question, he asked why his Sub was rejected. And you answered very clearly. You said the title was all Greek to you. Meaning you didn't understand it. It's in Greek, it was Greek to you. Which we say when we don't understand something -- in whatever language. Except this was in Greek language. So funny. So very funny. I get it, believe me. But now you say, oh, that's not the reason. Not a real answer. That you were just being funny. Not answering. You said a lot, you didn't answer the question. Like when I asked about the Robot!
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Friday July 27 2018, @03:09AM
I seriously wonder what will happen when you are halfway through a post - and the wind changes. Will you be stuck speaking in DJTrump-esque manners for the rest of all time?
Still makes me laugh most of the time though =)