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Wide pan from leaping flames to burning mountainside2. Mid of flames leaping up mountainside3. Mid of flames around base of pylon4. Wide of flames around pylon on mountainside5. Various of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNea Makri, near Marathon - 24 August 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide pan from leaping flames to burning mountainside\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of flames leaping up mountainside\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of flames around base of pylon\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of flames around pylon on mountainside\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of burning mountainside\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of line of flame with lights from houses behind\u003cbr/\u003e7. Residents discussing situation with police\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of men watching fire with thick smoke passing overhead\u003cbr/\u003e9. Church with fire behind\u003cbr/\u003e10. Police vehicle with flashing light and fire in background\u003cbr/\u003e11. Forest ranger with fire in front of him\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up of Greek flag on ranger's sleeve, pull focus to show large flames\u003cbr/\u003eStamata, Athens - 23 August 2009\u003cbr/\u003e13. Small fire engine and people behind fighting fire\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of civilians using hose to spray water on fire \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of fire \u003cbr/\u003eMarathon Lake -  23 August 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of smoke over water with fire brigade plane flying overhead\u003cbr/\u003e17. Plane dropping water over fire \u003cbr/\u003eDionysos -  23 August 2009\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of burning house \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of burning house\u003cbr/\u003e20. Residents loading belongings into car\u003cbr/\u003e21. Woman from burning house crying and speaking on telephone, UPSOUND: (Greek) \"What could you do? You cannot come here because the police will not let you come through.\" \u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of people removing belongings from houses\u003cbr/\u003eStamata, Athens -  23 August 2009\u003cbr/\u003e23. Red Cross team heading towards fires from a school serving as a medical centre\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Nikos Orfanos, Head of the Red Cross team in Greece:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are about 200 members of the Red Cross in the fire areas. At this moment, we are operating in co-operation with the fire brigade. We are providing many of their trucks with drivers and also we are also providing the army with drivers.\" \u003cbr/\u003e25. Various of burned farm \u003cbr/\u003e26. Various of burned car \u003cbr/\u003e27. Girl using branch to put out fire \u003cbr/\u003e28. Various of workers trying to repair power line\u003cbr/\u003e29. Communication tower at top of mountain surrounded by smoke \u003cbr/\u003eA partial drop in gale-force winds early on Monday offered hard-pressed Greek firefighters a brief respite after wildfires raged for two days north of Athens, burning houses and swathes of forest while forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.\u003cbr/\u003eBut fire brigade officials cautioned that the fires still threatened inhabited areas on the capital's northern fringes, the eastern coastal town of Nea Makri and nearby Marathon - site of one of history's most famous battlegrounds.\u003cbr/\u003e Several houses were gutted but there were no reports of deaths or injuries. There was huge damage to the countryside, however, with thousands of hectares of the area's rapidly dwindling forests gone.\u003cbr/\u003eGreek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said the fire - one of more than 90 that broke out across Greece over the weekend - was still very hard to tackle.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Nea Makri, south of Marathon, local authorities said blaze stretching for 2.5-miles (four-kilometres) was tearing down a hillside towards some houses, and a dozen nuns were evacuated from a nearby Christian Orthodox convent.\u003cbr/\u003eFirefighters were set to gain a new boost at first light on Monday, when water-dropping aircraft will resume operations, assisted by aircraft from France, Italy and Cyprus. \u003cbr/\u003eWater-dropping aircrafts were to resume operations at first light on Monday, assisted by aircraft from France, Italy and Cyprus. \u003cbr/\u003eMore than two thousand firefighters, soldiers and volunteers are fighting the blaze on the ground.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials have not said what started the fire. \u003cbr/\u003eHundreds of forest blazes plague Greece every summer and many are set intentionally - often by unscrupulous land developers or animal farmers seeking to expand their grazing land.\u003cbr/\u003eIn many afflicted areas, despairing residents pleaded for firefighters and equipment that were nowhere to be seen.\u003cbr/\u003eEarlier on Sunday, thousands of residents of Athens' northern outskirts evacuated their homes, fleeing in cars or on foot.\u003cbr/\u003eThe fire destroyed several houses as it advanced across an area more than 30 miles (50 kilometres) in circumference.\u003cbr/\u003eSix major fires were burning early Monday across Greece. The Athens blaze started north of Marathon plain, and spread over Mount Penteli - on the city's limit to the north - threatening outlying suburbs.\u003cbr/\u003eDriven by gale-force winds, the blaze grew fastest near Marathon, from which the long-distance foot race takes its name, born from a legendary run after the 490 B.C (Before Christ) Athenian victory over an invading Persian army.\u003cbr/\u003eA shift in wind helped halt the flames in the town of Agios Stefanos, a township on the fringes of Athens on the opposite side of Mount Penteli from Marathon. \u003cbr/\u003eMost of its 10-thousand inhabitants had evacuated Sunday afternoon. By nightfall, the town was empty, authorities said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe nine helicopters and 14 planes that operated during the day, including two planes sent from Italy, dumped some four thousand tons (3,600 metric tons) of water on the fire, but apparently without much success. \u003cbr/\u003eTelevision showed airplanes and helicopters dropping water on a forest outside Agios Stefanos - and the fire re-igniting moments after they left.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Red Cross is assisting to try to bring the fires under control.\u003cbr/\u003eNikos Orfanos, head of the Red Cross team in Greece, said that the organisation was providing additional drivers for the fire brigade and the army.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 58 square miles (37,000 acres or 15,000 hectares) of forest, brush and olive groves have burned. 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