the blaze, including those who took to the sea. 0ur correspondent james reynolds met a british patient, 71 —year—old susan margarettakes up the story. for the fire to get to our place is very difficult. we've lived through a lot of fires, but it never went, so, so down. my mother started to pack things up, in five minutes the fire was at the house. it was that fast. and you were alone with the house? alone. did you phone your son? she didn't have time. the only thing she had time to do because the fire was at the house, she closed the windows, she wet a towel and lay down on the floor. when the first big fire passed the house she opened the door and left. she went down to the car, car was on fire, she tried to run away. she went to marathonos. and the bad thing about that is, she had her dog with her. her dog got terrified and went the other way. so she just ran, through the fire, we've got... like a river, next to the house. and everything was burning. and you got some terrible burns. the burns were because she was running through the fire to save herself. in the end she got down to marathonos and stayed there wi