wildfires are raging through the Eastern Greek peninsula on Maddie beach
Speaker 1: (00:07)
July 23rd, 2018 wildfires are raging through the Eastern Greek peninsula on Maddie beach. Kelly and Agusto and her family are trapped between the raging fires and the seed, and they’re slowly suffocating and don’t know when or if help will arrive.
Speaker 2: (00:26)
The only thing that I kept thinking of was taking my son out of it because he was shouting at me, I need a hug or are we going to be saved? Are we going to be okay? The only thing that I kept saying to my son, we’re going to have to wait and pretend to him also that we are okay. We didn’t understand what was happening. We were thinking that we were going to die.
Speaker 1: (00:59)
Crosstown cost us G costs is locked out of his house and with flames all around him. He has nowhere left to run.
Speaker 3: (01:09)
Everything just happened so fast. They see that play out is coming to me. You blew your nose for a few seconds, you’re doing things enough. You block out Constance, his friend at yeosu is fighting the fire inside the house,
Speaker 4: (01:26)
not boy. He’d be a dead Ascosta get the off and on. No video on [inaudible] telephone [inaudible] from South
Speaker 3: (01:40)
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Speaker 4: (02:03)
[inaudible] when you go, who we see the clock. I just don’t go over new Wiki. Thought they said.
Speaker 3: (02:10)
Have you still called the bender? I don’t know. I haven’t death now, I believe.
Speaker 4: (02:16)
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Speaker 5: (02:23)
back at the beach, medical help has finally arrived for Kelly’s son.
Speaker 2: (02:29)
After about an hour or so, a Jeep arrived in order to get my son to a hospital. Being separated from my son was probably one of the worst times. I did not know if he would make it. I did not know if he was scared or if he felt safe and I did not even know that if I would be able to see him again,
Speaker 6: (03:09)
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Speaker 1: (03:12)
later that evening, Nico’s very caucus and hundreds of others are still waiting for information.
Speaker 3: (03:18)
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Speaker 1: (03:50)
as the fires die down, the rescue efforts ramp up after watching the tragedy unfold. Hundreds volunteer to help Artemis Curia Capillus comes from Athens to sift through the ashes.
Speaker 2: (04:06)
They after it was like a ghost town. Everything was dust, and then I started feeling so emotional, and we just started looking around for Ani models or people that they were needing help. All the buildings were burned and burned. Animals around us everywhere. Nothing alive. We were looking at the Bob here of a, a numb T building, and I thought I heard something please who was injured and burned all over his body. So that’s why I called him look, my kids, it’s um, Crick translate of marshmallow what got some food and water, and I started gaining his trust. He started smelling me and just started wagging his down. But I could see the pain that he was in intense pain because his body was burning his pose
Speaker 1: (05:21)
for Kelly’s husband, Fanny. It is a long journey back. I was like, find the first flight out of Dubai. The trip was for me, something like autopilot, actually his family is safe, but they face a long road to recovery.
Speaker 2: (05:40)
I still have surgeries to do, and I have a lot of scars and burns right now on my body. That unfold, remind me of what has happened, and for my son, the only way that we are going to see everything go is as he grows. So it’s a long process.
Speaker 3: (06:00)
The emotional swing, you said the people you love, the burn, it’s overwhelming. Actually. There were just a couple of minutes away of getting suffocated industry. If I own this really many houses here, some houses this way, [inaudible] [inaudible] give them money with fixing the house. Be born, come from Australia, from America, from our city. However, on Santa Monica for staples and fix their house. You believe these? And if I don’t get with these people that don’t know what they do,
Speaker 2: (06:36)
disasters like this always bring people closer than make us all humans. Look at Mike, his son recover after almost one week when his cell was, he dumped, announced that they’re wiggling his tail and kissing on us and it was amazing. Now he’s doing great, and we found his forever family.
Speaker 1: (07:06)
The Annika wildfires claim more than a hundred lives, and Greece enters a three day period of national mourning for the residents of Maddie. It’s something that will stay with them forever.
Speaker 3: (07:20)
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Speaker 1: (07:48)
spreading flames in a wildfire is only part of the wind’s destructive power. A tornado is a vortex of violence with winds that can circulate at speeds over 200 miles per hour. In Canada, a tornado is about to strike a woman, and her child desperately run for cover at a convenience store. As the manager fights against the power of the wind to open the door
Speaker 3: (08:26)
with a woman’s safe inside, the guys have no choice but to hold on for dear life. [inaudible] Oh my God.
Speaker 1: (08:44)
In Canterbury, New Zealand, this tornado is making for a terrifying call ride. Thankfully they’re safe to carry on their journey after their impromptu drag race trapped in a tornado on a highway in Quebec. This woman is feeling the full force of the storm, terrifying close encounter, showers her with broken glass, leaving cuts and bruises.