Two firefighting helicopters collide near Athens as Greece battles massive wildfires

Two firefighting crew members killed in helicopter collision; three Greek firefighters died previously from wildfire injuries; over 300,000 people evacuated across France and Spain; 100+ homes destroyed in Greece.

Along the sun-scorched edges of Athens and across a burning continent, the summer of 2026 has become a reckoning. Two firefighters — a Danish pilot and a Greek co-pilot — lost their lives when their helicopter was overwhelmed by gale-force winds while battling a wildfire advancing on Greece's capital, a tragedy that reveals how the very instruments of rescue can be consumed by the crisis they are sent to meet. From the Gironde to the Peloponnese, Europe is confronting a pattern scientists have long warned of: a warming continent where fire is no longer an exception but a condition of life, and

Two firefighting helicopters collide near Athens as Greece battles massive wildfires

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