Greek authorities tame a wildfire that forced the evacuation of a hospital and a retirement home

Greek authorities on Tuesday evacuated a children's hospital and a retirement home on the outskirts of the southern city of Patras after a summer wildfire flared in the area amid hot, windy weather.

Fire service spokesman Vasilis Vathrakoyiannis said the evacuations were carried out as a precaution and a large firefighting effort was paying off. No injuries were reported. Around two dozen children in all were evacuated, health officials said.

Vathrakoyiannis said no houses were under threat from the blaze, which raged through a pine forest on the fringes of the city that's some 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Athens.

"The fire took on enormous dimensions very fast," he told state-run ERT television. "The front and its dynamic have been contained."

"We're just dealing with scattered points of fire now," he added. About 80 firefighters, assisted by 10...