Brad & Angelina High Tail it to the Hamptons

Wind-Whipped Fires in Greece Kill 49
By PETROS GIANNAKOURIS and JOHN F.L. ROSS, Associated Press Writers
1 hour ago

ZAHARO, Greece - Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages and scorched the edges of Athens on Saturday, with ashes raining onto the Acropolis. At least 49 people died, and the government declared a nationwide state of emergency.

The worst infernos were concentrated in the mountains of southern Greece and on the island of Evia north of Athens, and early Sunday, flames approached villages just outside Ancient Olympia.

Panicked residents and local officials called television stations to appeal for help, with many complaining there were too few firefighters.

“We’re going to burn alive here,” one woman told Greek television from the village of Lambeti. She said residents were using garden hoses in a desperate attempt to save their homes.

Dozens of charred bodies were found across fields, homes, along roads and in cars, including the remains of a mother hugging her four children.

Church bells rang out in the village of Kolyri near Ancient Olympia as panicked residents tried to gather their belongings and flee through the night, said one man who called the television station.

“The situation is desperate,” said another. “I can’t describe this in words.”

New fronts emerged Saturday as dozens of fresh fires broke out _ including some blamed on arson. Another blaze broke out in the area of Kalyvia, between the capital and the ancient site of Sounion to the south, and the flames flared again on two fronts in the early hours of Sunday morning, threatening houses.

Soldiers and military helicopters reinforced firefighting forces stretched to the limit by Greece’s worst summer of wildfires. In the most ravaged area _ a string of mountain villages in southern Greece _ rescue crews picked through a grim aftermath that spoke of last-minute desperation as the fires closed in.

By sea and by land, authorities evacuated hundreds of people trapped by the flames.

Senior Health Ministry official Panagiotis Efstathiou said 49 bodies were taken to hospitals. The fire department said it could confirm 47 deaths. There were fears the toll could increase as rescue crews searched recently burned areas.

An extra 500 soldiers would join firefighters Sunday, the fire department said, while at least 12 countries were sending reinforcements, including firefighting aircraft and crews.

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said arson was suspected in some of the blazes.

“So many fires breaking out simultaneously in so many parts of the country cannot be a coincidence,” he said in a nationally televised address. “The state will do everything it can to find those responsible and punish them.”

A 65-year-old man was arrested and charged with arson and multiple counts of homicide in a fire that killed six people in Areopolis, a town in the southern Peloponnese, said fire department spokesman Nikos Diamandis. Separately, two youths were arrested on suspicion of arson in the northern city of Kavala, he said. Their parents will also face charges.

Hospitals across Greece were on alert, and the Health Ministry sent tents for 1,500 people to the south to house those made homeless.

The worst affected region was around the town of Zaharo, where thick smoke blocked out the intense summer sun and could be seen from more than 60 miles away. The blaze broke out Friday afternoon and quickly engulfed villages, trapping dozens of people and killing at least 39. Scores of people were treated in hospitals for burns and breathing problems.

“I feel deep grief for our dead,” Karamanlis said in his address. “I feel deep pain for the mother who perished in the flames with her arms round her children. I feel anger _ the same that you feel.”

The fire department said at least 26 villages were evacuated.

“We have been totally destroyed here. We’ve been wiped out,” Yiannis Panagopoulos, mayor of Oleni in the western Peloponnese, told Greek television. He said that about 80 houses in several villages were burned and the olive groves from which many residents made their living had been decimated.

North of Athens on the island of Evia, a massive fire burned across hillsides and through villages. Strong winds blowing with gale-force gusts blew thick smoke southwards into Athens Saturday, turning the sky red over the capital and raining ashes down into the city center. Police and coast guards used patrol boats to evacuate 300 people from the island’s town of Aliveri and 40 from the nearby town of Styra.

About 300 tourists, mainly from France, were evacuated from local hotels, Greek-French architect Xavier Pathoulas said.

“If the wind doesn’t turn tonight, we will burn,” he said.

Hot, dry seasonal winds drove the flames across a landscape parched by successive heat waves. Reduced winds and a slight dip in temperatures were forecast for Sunday.

The fires were so severe that authorities said they could not yet provide an estimate of how much damage they had caused, nor what expanse of land had been burned.

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74 just amazing : 08/26/2007 at 1:38 am
Brad has evolved into a mature man right in front of our eyes since Angelina came into his life. He is seriously professional and focused in demeanor like Angelina. That facade of an eternally boyish lightweight that Brad was perceived to be by many is gone. The hidden amazing man is now revealed. Who would have think it!

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Exactly. Who would have think it!
Brad had totally change to a mature, responsible and socially aware person while his X seems stuck to their previous carefree lifestyle as proven in recent butt and crotch exposure stage picture. I just can’t imagine how can the tabloids lied or make-up fictional story about him reuniting with his X. there’s no way this guy is going back to those carefree life style.

There seems to be some tension between these two before and after the helicopter ride. Just my opinion of course!

89 Passing Through : 08/26/2007 at 1:48 am
In picture #4 you can see a long black line drawn on Angie’s new $1650 white Valentino handbag. No doubt the handiwork of tiny hands with new art supplies…
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Oh PT you are so observent. What a mom, one of her little ones has practiced their artwork with their new supplies on her beautiful white purse, and she just carries on.

Reminds me of Brad saying at LA 013 that one of the kids had thrown up on him as they were getting ready to leave the house, and he said something like “if anyone had told him he would be crapped on and vomited on and he wouldn’t mind it, he would not have believed them”.

94 hkn : 08/26/2007 at 2:05 am
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Since there are no pixs here of them after the helicopter ride at their Hamptons designation how is any tension detected at that destination by you? By magical means I guess. LOL. Some people are totally living in an alternate reality universe.

#90 thanks for that…I’ll be following up…. every year there **** fires all over Europe and all over the world, but this ones pretty bad….however this is a site for not so serious news..its for pretty pictures and sad hopes for individuals who feed on other individuals lives.. because they are lacking somewhere in there own…..someone said it best with “THAT”S LIFE”
…..and yes she does look quite stunning in white, a definete nice change from her choice of dark hues…. Life is good poeple enjoy it to YOUR fullest…..

94 hkn

you are another funniest person here.can you tell us what their tensions was about.

and another things you have got their picture after heli ride,please show us that b/c we didn`t see those photo.

so according to photo we have got from brad and his X they should live happily ever after.can you tell what tension between them ruin all of those photo just one month before their split?

If today, and yesterday, is an example of an ordinary day in the life of joliepitts then there is no reason to suppose why she is thin. Central Park with the children and surrounded by hundreds of boisterous fans and now zipping to the Hamptons to support her man. that might not seem like much, but consider the emotional toll in each situation. She had to deal with the children once she returned to the hotel. And probably didn’t eat too much, not enough time, waiting to eat when they get to party. She is a very busy lady. And when was working in Prague and Chicago she still had mommie and wife duties to perform. Peace

Brad is just yummy. Very very handsome.

Stop trying to judge their relationship based on split second pictures.

105 Matt : 08/26/2007 at 2:25 am
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Lucky Brad! I’m not a lebian, but i would @#$%^& the “skeleton”! she is not just beautiful she is f*cking hot!

108 stop

you yourself understand what you are talking about.with your comment I can`t understand anything.

I’m sooooo sick of these two. Angelina is not a saint like everyone makes her to be. She hates her dad cuz he cheated on mom and left them. Angelina did the exact same thing…slept with a married man. To boot…she’s so skinny its sickening.

WOW ANGIE JUST LOOKS SO CHIC AND BRAD WELL, THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!

114 Teresa : 08/26/2007 at 2:46 am
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Do you have a proof that she slept with Brad when he was married? Off course you don’t, you don’t no nothing about it.

The only thing that we know is waht Brad, is ex and Angelina said. And they all said there was no cheating.

If it sickens you to look at her why do you do it? Why are you in here?

I beat you like looking at her in 2005, she was so fat than, wasn’t she?
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2919/32ee8.jpg

You people are like broken records… always the same, blah, blah…