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Two Australian helicopters collide midair fighting fires in Greece

Two people on one helicopter — a Greek and a Danish national — died after two helicopters crashed together. (Reuters: Hellenic Red Cross)

Two firefighters are dead after a collision between two Australian-owned helicopters near Athens, as Europe's wildfire emergency continues.

Dry conditions and strong winds are complicating efforts to bring fires across Greece under control.

Meanwhile, fire-hit areas of France and Spain remain on alert despite most blazes coming under control.

Two Greek firefighting helicopters, leased by Australian company McDermott Aviation, have collided in midair while battling a wind-driven wildfire west of Athens, with footage showing one aircraft crashing to the ground.

Evacuations as crews fight fire northwest of Athens

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Hundreds of Greek firefighters are fighting a wildfire northwest of Athens for a fourth day after strong and erratic winds helped it devastate homes, pine forests and thousands of hectares of farmland, forcing evacuations ‌by land and sea.

Two crew on a firefighting helicopter crashed and died on Sunday near the seaside community of Psatha, about 40km from Athens, after a mid-air brush with a second helicopter, whose ‌two crew survived.

Two helicopters collide outside Athens as Greece battles to control wildfires

Fire department says two-person crew of one aircraft killed in incident during gale-force winds to west of capital

Two firefighting helicopters have collided west of Athens, killing the two-person crew of one of the aircraft, as efforts to control a massive wildfire barrelling towards the outskirts of the Greek capital intensified.

Footage showed one of the helicopters losing control in the face of gale-force winds that have pushed flames towards settlements on Athens’ western fringes.

“The pilots … were taken unconscious to hospital, where their death was confirmed,” said the fire department’s director of communications, Vassilis Vathrakogiannis.

The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the two dead were a Dane and a Greek. The two crew members of the second helicopter were rescued.

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