Firefighters and volunteers managed to contain the forest fire that threatened ancient Olympia last night. Olympia on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece is considered the cradle of the Olympic Games.
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The historic ruins have been saved for now, but according to Nektarios Farmakis, governor of the region of Western Greece, “the danger is not over.” The hope is that the fire can be brought under control with helicopters and fire-fighting planes in the coming hours.