Read more Greece fires stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/10977/greece-fires.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorWed, 16 May 2012 15:58:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67601/firefighters-battle-blazes-near-athens.html<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=286233&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110331215251' border='0' />Fire crews outside Athens are scrambling to exploit a lull in high winds as they fight massive wildfires that broke out Friday and have razed about 58 square miles north of the Greek capital. The flames are still spreading, and a dozen nuns had to be rescued from a convent...A soldier uses a spade to fight flames, in Agios Stephanos, a suburb north of Athens, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009.http://www.newser.com/story/67601/firefighters-battle-blazes-near-athens.htmlMon, 24 Aug 2009 06:41:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/6675/desperate-greeks-look-to-tv-for-help.htmlColleen Barry<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=23335&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401032645' border='0' />Desperate Greeks have resorted to calling TV stations with pleas for rescue from wildfires that have been raging for the past week, Der Spiegel reports, highlighting what one critic calls a "deep mistrust of the capability of the state machine." And the stations have gotten results: "Wherever we broadcast live...Farmers try to extingush the fire in the village of Varvasaina, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. Varvasaina was at the middle of a vast series of fires burning out of control in the country's southern Peloponnese peninsula. Nearly all 64 people who died in the blazes that began late on the evening of Aug. 23 perished in this region. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)http://www.newser.com/story/6675/desperate-greeks-look-to-tv-for-help.htmlThu, 30 Aug 2007 11:17:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/6649/fires-are-national-humiliation.htmlWesley Oliver<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=23183&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401032652' border='0' />Firefighters in Greece said today they have tamed the wildfires that have ravaged the countryside, the BBC reports, but the political tempest over the handling of the crisis is just heating up. As protesters demonstrated in Athens against the government, crews said the fires that have claimed 63 lives are...A Greek orthodox priest looks on during a fire in the village of Thisoa, in the Peloponnese, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007. The country's worst forest fires in living memory have killed at least 64 people since they began five days ago, ravaging olive groves, forest and orchards and incinerating homes, wild animals and livestock. Southern Greece, where the flames reached the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Ancient Olympia, was by far the worst affected. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)http://www.newser.com/story/6649/fires-are-national-humiliation.htmlWed, 29 Aug 2007 17:21:36 CDT