Fires contained as Greek officials focus on relief effort

Greece’s fire department said all major blazes were “generally receding,” but authorities remained on high alert for possible rekindling of the massive fires that have killed at least 64 people before a new heat wave forecast for the weekend.

In the southern Peloponnese peninsula, where 57 of the deaths were recorded, all the fronts were contained and firefighters – backed by more than 20 water-dropping aircraft – were moving in to extinguish lingering blazes.