She’d been smoking,” a Greek official said of a Georgian woman who was arrested after a blaze tore through 11,000 acres of Chios this week.

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An arson investigation team had been examining the cause of the wildfires which started on Sunday and required 444 firefighters, along with several helicopters and aircraft, to bring them under control.