(Ha'aretz) Fadi Eyadat - Firefighters managed to fully contain the massive Carmel blaze on Sunday afternoon, after 77 hours of battling the flames in northern Israel. Earlier Sunday, the world's largest firefighting aircraft, the American "Evergreen" Boeing 747 Super Tanker, took to the skies in a last push to put out the flames that were still burning through the Carmel Mountains. The firefighting forces included 35 aircraft, 24 of which were provided by foreign countries.
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