About 450 firefighters were deployed Sunday across the two wildfire zones that killed the helicopter crews, ABC reported. [1] It was not clear how many of them stood at the crash site. The two Saturday-morning ignitions had already forced evacuations in Boeotia and Attica before the collision. [1] That headcount is a local Sunday surge, not the Greek summer.

The same week killed three firefighters on the ground before Sunday's two aircrew. [1] Evacuations ran through Boeotia and Attica as the Porto Germeno fire pushed toward Megara's industrial belt. [2] France still had nearly 3,000 firefighters on the Gironde scar and a Provence blaze. [2] Spain's major fires had stopped advancing on Sunday and still needed perimeter guards.

Four hundred and fifty is what a capital-region Sunday looks like when the helicopters have just collided and the Bells are already being pulled. It is not Europe's firefighter census, and it is not a claim the fire is staffed. Scale is the divergence. The 2018 Mati fire that killed 104 people is the local memory those 450 are working against. [2] The wire gives a zone count. The feed turns it into a continent running out of people.

-- DARA OSEI, London