‘The fire moved faster than the cars:’ Residents in Athens suburbs describe destruction wrought by deadly wildfires‘The fire moved faster than the cars:’ Residents in Athens suburbs describe destruction wrought by deadly wildfires 

Where just hours ago there were thick rows of trees, now stumps protrude and smoke still rises from scorched soil. On one road in Chalandri, a hilltop village that peers over Athens, a family returns to see their house charred and bedsheets – left on the line to dry in the sun – now blackened. The teenage son is in tears.