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 | A helicopter drops water behind the stone arch leading into the ancient stadium of Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, in southwestern Greece on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. A massive effort by firefighters, assisted by water-dropping aircraft and firetrucks, succeeded in keeping a raging blaze away from the 2,800-year-old site Ñ the holiest sanctuary in ancient Greece. Three days of forest blazes throughout the country have left at least 57 people dead, authorities said Sunday. click to open  |  | Civilians try to extinguish a fire in the village of Varvasena about 15 kilometers south of ancient Olympia, 330 kilometers (206 miles) south of Athens on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. Fires tore through parched forests and swallowed villages across Greece, bearing down Sunday on communities near Ancient Olympia in the south. Nearly 50 people were dead. The government has declared a nationwide state of emergency. click to open |  | Farmers on a tractor are seen near a bush fire in the village of Varvasena about 15 kilometers south of ancient Olympia, 330 kilometers (206 miles) south of Athens on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. Fires tore through parched forests and swallowed villages across Greece, bearing down Sunday on communities near Ancient Olympia in the south. Nearly 50 people were dead.The government has declared a nationwide state of emergency. click to open |  | Local residents try to estinguish a burning house in Smerna village, in the Zacharo area of Peloponnese peninsula. Forest fires are raging unabated on the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece, killing at least 51 people in an inferno that officials called an unprecedented disaster not yet under control. click to open |  | Farmers try to extinguish a fire in the village of Varvasena about 15 kilometers south of ancient Olympia, 330 kilometers (206 miles) south of Athens on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007. Fires tore through parched forests and swallowed villages across Greece, bearing down Sunday on communities near Ancient Olympia in the south. click to open |  | Villagers struggle to battle flames with a small garden hose in the village of Leprio in south Peloponnese, about 350km (217 miles) of Athens, August 26, 2007. Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames. click to open |  | A villager struggles to battle a blaze with a branch in the village of Leprio in south Peloponnese, about 350km (217 miles) of Athens, August 26, 2007. Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames. click to open |
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