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A volunteer helps firefighters battle a forest fire in Lanton, Gironde region of southwestern France. [ED Jones, AFP]
Three firefighters died battling forest blazes in Greece on Wednesday as several other fires broke out around the country, fed by gale-force winds.
The fire department said two firefighters had died on the island of Crete "during an operation to contain a rural forest fire."
A third firefighter was found unconscious near the Peloponnese port of Gytheio, a fire department spokesman told AFP, with media reports saying he had died of pathological causes.
