Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze on Crete island, Greece, on Thursday, which burned swathes of forest and olive groves and forced the evacuation of over a thousand people, officials said, underscoring the region’s vulnerability to destructive wildfires.
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Crete wildfire: Swaths of forest, olive groves burn on Greek island
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