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Help has been flown in by other countries, including british firefighters. i haven't seen fires like this before in the uk, it's something that's completely new to me. i've seen grass fires and open area fires, but this is just something on another scale. they are helping with manual tools, trying to put in fire breaks and stopping the fire from spreading. there has been public anger at the government response, something the greek prime minister has apologised for. but he says climate change is causing fires that last for weeks, speaking just hours after the un warned that human activity is ma...

Called a nightmarish summer. nearly 600 fires have broken out across the country since latejuly, fuelled by strong winds and the worst heatwave in decades. the biggest is in evia, an island north—east of athens, which has been ablaze for a week. help has been flown in by other countries, including british firefighters. i haven't seen fires like this before in the uk, it's something that's completely new to me. i've seen grass fires and open area fires, but this is just something on another scale. they are helping with manual tools, trying to put in fire breaks and stopping the fire from spre...

Nearly 600 fires have broken out across the country since latejuly, fuelled by strong winds and the worst heatwave in decades. the biggest is in evia, an island north—east of athens, which has been ablaze for a week. help has been flown in by other countries, including british firefighters. i haven't seen fires like this before in the uk, it's something that's completely new to me. i've seen grass fires and open area fires, but this is just something on another scale. they are helping with manual tools, trying to put in fire breaks and stopping the fire from spreading. there has been public ...

We look at how much dead fuel is out there. what the drought has created is large pockets of dead fuel that provide the base for the fire. >> you had quite a season last year starting may, 2014. tell me a little bit about that. >> i think what was unique about that event was, one, it was in may where we see aggressive active fire behavior. two, the majority of fires we saw were along the coast and historically for us, you don't see a lot of fires on the coast because you have a coastal input. occasionally less winds. historically n our area fires start to the east and move to the west. this wa...

Access road that goes between the northbound and the southbound lanes. the san bernardino county sheriff's department had us go on that emergency access road, which took us basically down to the northbound lanes and then we were able to get back on the i-15 northbound -- >> and ryan we're looking at pictures right now. we have been told about an hour ago there were 500 acres burning. it has to be way more than that. at this point we continue to look at footage of this road. dozens of cars there still burning. we have seen video of firefighters fighting these blazes from the air and also on the...