Greece has brought in the army to help extinguish fires raging out of control in eastern Attica – as it happened

Eighty-eight soldiers had been seconded in the battle to contain blazes with firefighting efforts

AFP reports from Penteli:

Thick smoke from burning trees filled a small square in Penteli where local resident Mariana Papathanasi said they could only pray that their houses would be saved.

There is still a strong fire. Some houses were burned after midnight and we are trying to protect our local restaurant," the 49-year-old supermarket employee told AFP.