We were stunned by the photographs coming out of a wildfire near Athens today. They were taken by Angelos Tzortzinis after a fire that burned inside an air force base.
The AP moved a story about it, earlier today. But Tzortzinis found that the fire had also affected an encampment of Romas and took these haunting images for the Agence France Presse:
![The fire broke out in the industrial zone of Athens in the early afternoon, threatening the Hellenic Airforce base and a Roma encampment.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e23fdb8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4252x2832+0+0/resize/880x586!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2012%2F06%2F20%2F511835618_12259607_custom-892690e829a55d8959cee5d4f76b788db5cefd7b.jpg)
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The AP reports that a 28-year-old firefighter died fighting the blaze.
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