Two Killed In Fire As Greece Hits Sixth Straight Day Above 104 F - Reuters

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ATHENS - Two men were killed on Thursday in a forest fire in Greece, which is battling dozens of blazes on the sixth day of a heatwave. The fire trapped the victims' car near the town of Agia in central Greece in the early hours. They got out and tried in vain to escape, officials said.

Dozens of firefighters and planes battled to contain the blaze as well as several smaller fires being fanned by strong winds in the nearby Pelion peninsula.

About 100 firefighters, five planes and a helicopter fought another forest fire in central Greece as temperatures across the country held above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for a sixth consecutive day. They have reached 46C. Before Thursday's deaths, Greece's worst heatwave in 110 years had killed at least 10 people, nine dying from heatstroke.

The country also faced hours-long power outages in many areas, including parts of the capital, due to increased energy consumption and damages to the grid. An electricity station in northern Greece exploded, causing a small fire and cutting power to many parts of the region.

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[Algorem]

1. those Greece fires can be hard to put out

[Systematic Chaos]

2. They need to apply the Grecian Formula to help solve this crisis.

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