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Athens (AFP) Dec 2, 2010 Greece said it will send four Canadair fire fighting planes to help Israel bring a deadly forest fire under control near Haifa, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The planes were to take off late Thursday from a military airport near Athens and were due to reach Haifa at dawn on Friday, after refuelling in Rhodes, Greece's firefighting services said. The foreign ministry said the backup was ordered by Prime Minister Georges Papandreou after a telephone request from his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Forest fire inferno kills 40 in northern IsraelHaifa, Israel (AFP) Dec 2, 2010 At least 40 people were killed on Thursday when a devastating fire tore through a forest near the northern city of Haifa, prompting Israel to call for international help to put out the blaze. Police sources said at least 40 people had died in the blaze which officials said was the worst in Israel's history. Israel's ambulance service Magen David Adom initially said around 40 people had b ... read more |
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