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Firefighter Panagiotis Haratsis, 35, operates during a wildfire at the north-east suburb of Pallini, near Athens Greece, 20 July 2022. Raging wildfires continued to burn throughout the night and into the early morning hours on 20 July in the northeast suburbs of Athens, with firefighters and civil protection services engaged in a desperate battle to control flames that were fanned by gale-force winds with high speed, intensity and constantly changing direction. The Hellenic Police have carried out 600 evacuations of citizens to safe locations. Three planes and five helicopters joined the battle, alongside 485 firefighters, 120 fire engines and 28 ground teams operating below, assisted by volunteer fire fighters, local authority water tanker trucks and heavy machinery. (Photo by Kostas Tsironis/EPA/EFE)
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