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Hundreds of firefighters battle wildfires on Greece's Chios island for third day

By Angeliki Koutantou CHIOS, Greece (Reuters) -Hundreds of firefighters battled for a third day to contain wildfires on the Greek island of Chios on Tuesday that have torn through swathes of forest and farmland and forced hundreds of villagers to evacuate,

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Woman arrested over wildfires which raged for three days on the Greek island of Chios

An arson investigation team had been examining the cause of the wildfires which started on Sunday and required 444 firefighters, along with several helicopters and aircraft, to bring them under control.

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Housekeeper Arrested Over Wildfire That Scorched Greek Island

She’d been smoking,” a Greek official said of a Georgian woman who was arrested after a blaze tore through 11,000 acres of Chios this week.

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Greece holds Georgian suspected of fuelling Chios fire with cigarette

Greece has arrested a Georgian woman suspected of discarding a cigarette that helped trigger one of several wildfires razing ...

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Chios Fire: Battle Rages on Three Fronts as Arson Suspected

Chios is battling a fire that continues to rage on three active fronts, pushing firefighters to their limits in an all-night ...

Wildfire prompts evacuations near Athens as summer’s first heat wave hits Greece

A large wildfire has broken out south of the Greek capital, with authorities sending push alerts to mobile phones urging people to evacuate from five settlements near the blaze.

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Cigarette Sparks Controversy: Georgian Woman Arrested Amid Chios Inferno

A Georgian woman was arrested in Greece, suspected of causing a wildfire on Chios island by discarding a cigarette. The fires ...

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