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SOURBRODT, Belgium (AP) \u2014 One of Belgium’s<\/a> biggest ever wildfires blazed out of control Monday even as cooler weather and rain in the morning eased conditions for hundreds of firefighters in remote and hilly countryside. In Greece<\/a>, a fire briefly flared up near the main airport on the outskirts of Athens.<\/p>\n

A forest ranger said the fire in Belgium could continue for months underground in peaty soil and sporadically flare up.<\/p>\n

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