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ATHENS, Aug. 25 — Greece declared a national state of emergency on Saturday as scores of forest fires that have killed at least 46 people continued to burn out of control, leaving some villages trapped within walls of flames, cut off from firefighters and, in some cases, from firefighting aircraft grounded because of high winds.

Hundreds of homes were damaged, and in a rare move, Israel called up military reservists to join overstretched police and firefighters and made use of an international fleet of firefighting aircraft sent by several countries.

Mr. Netanyahu's office reported that he expressed to Mr. Abbas his appreciation for the assistance and added that after this disaster Israel would obtain a fleet of firefighting aircraft and would make them available to the Palestinian Authority as well.

The fire was 30percentt contained in Florida, and the smoke was beginning to lift enough for firefighting aircraft to take off after being grounded all weekend because of low visibility.

Marseille airport, which redirected incoming flights to make way for firefighting aircraft, said the situation was gradually getting back to normal by midday on Thursday.

According to federal officials, drones have grounded firefighting aircraft six times in the last three weeks. .

Under firefighting protocols, military aircraft are to be sent to a fire only if no civilian planes are available and only if federal or state officials ask for help.

In order to ensure global coverage of their payload, the planes, looking more like firefighting tanker aircraft than commercial airliners, would take off from four different latitudes ― say runways in Houston, Manila, Brasilia and Johannesburg.

And it has already increased the number of aircraft by temporarily leasing planes from firefighting outfits in Alaska, California and Canada.

Aircraft have an important but limited role in firefighting.

I mean, there's actually one aircraft in the Western World that's been purpose-built specifically for firefighting.