MAKISTOS, Greece - When the water ran out, with pinecones popping and the flames still high around his house, George Dimopoulos switched to wine. He made it himself two years ago, and, nearly alone in his village as it all but burnt down on Friday night, he poured liter after liter, 200 in all, into his little copper hand-pumped crop sprayer — and sprayed and sprayed.
“I had nothing else,” Mr. Dimopoulos, 63, said.
His wine helped save his life, his house and possibly his neighborhood. But it was an exception in this village and the one next door, Artemida, where the death toll from Greece’s worst fires in more than a century accounts for nearly half the 63 people now reported dead. Full Story - Globe Tabloid - Discount Cigarettes - Sharper Image
“I had nothing else,” Mr. Dimopoulos, 63, said.
His wine helped save his life, his house and possibly his neighborhood. But it was an exception in this village and the one next door, Artemida, where the death toll from Greece’s worst fires in more than a century accounts for nearly half the 63 people now reported dead. Full Story - Globe Tabloid - Discount Cigarettes - Sharper Image
