Burning Inferno :(

ZooL · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:43 am

Image courtesy of TetrakinisiMag

This isn't actually my rig...
It's a Greek Fire Service KJ, operating on a wild fire site at Mt. Parnitha National Forest on the outskirts of Athens, Greece's capital and largest city.

The fire almost completely destroyed the most beautiful part of the park, which is one of the few (10) NPs in Greece and the only one near the wider metropolitan Athens area, where more than 5 million people live. It was a devastating catastrophe.

Various 4x4 clubs and friends of the mountain volunteered and joined forces with the fire fighters, in an effort to save as much of the mountain's beauty as they could. Some more pics from these efforts on this link.

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ProjektKJ · **Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:23 pm

wow man thats quite the fire...

but good thing the kj is fire truck red.

does anyone in the states know where i can get one of those tire covers that keep your plates because the look of those is really amazing to say the least..

mentor · **Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:55 pm

welcome to the forum ZooL!!
Where r u in Greece?

kolasi i parni8a eisoun ekei??

ZooL · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:01 am

Kolash, pragmati...
Dystyxws 'h eytyxws, den hmoun ekei - evlepa mono tis floges na trwne to vouno apo makria.

Xairetismous sthn omorfh Rodo!

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Jeger · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:38 am

AAAHHH what is that....Klingon?!!

Just Kidding :lol:

(goes to freetranslation.com).....nope....trying babelfish....nope. Do the characters not display correctly or something? No translator can decipher this for me :oops:

EDIT: Ahh, I see that is some funky kind of alphabet for sure! Is this legible? υποδοχή σε L.O.S.T.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:13 pm

Jeger, are you ok? :?:

Jeger · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:26 pm

Sometimes, but mostly not

I usually try to get a translation whenever someone types in another language. But that is all Greek to me :lol:

Gris · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:31 pm

ProjektKJ wrote:

wow man thats quite the fire...

but good thing the kj is fire truck red.

does anyone in the states know where i can get one of those tire covers that keep your plates because the look of those is really amazing to say the least..

I've been looking for 2 years and can't find one state-side. Can't even get a dealer to order one, but you could probably get it from a Mopar parts reseller.

Everything I tried has ended up taking me overseas with a $300+ purchase price and crazy shipping charges.

Maximum Carnage · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:06 pm

Gris wrote:

Everything I tried has ended up taking me overseas with a $300+ purchase price and crazy shipping charges.

Exactly what I found out.

BTW I think This is the Part# 5HF06RXFAJ

mentor · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:49 pm

Jeger wrote:

Sometimes, but mostly not

I usually try to get a translation whenever someone types in another language. But that is all Greek to me :lol:

This is the greekenglish!!
is a Greek lang with english haracters

if i try to type greek and you have not GREEK fonts you see only small boxes

Jeger · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 3:16 pm

mentor wrote:

Jeger wrote:

Sometimes, but mostly not

I usually try to get a translation whenever someone types in another language. But that is all Greek to me :lol:

This is the greekenglish!!
is a Greek lang with english haracters

if i try to type greek and you have not GREEK fonts you see only small boxes

Cool greenglish! LOL So is this a trick most greek speaking people know or is it only for the computer savvy?

ZooL · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:26 pm

It's "Greeklish" actually

, not GreeNglish :p

It is a form of written communication deriving it's roots back in the first years of the Internet: the unix-based character sets used back in these days, didn't include any greek alphabet characters; so, people that wanted to write in Greek had to improvise, substituting greek characters with the corresponding latin ones.

Anybody speaking Greek can write Greeklish, as long as he can match "Λ" to "L", "Δ" to "D", etc.
Some really-really special greek characters, are sometimes "optically" attributed to latin symbols or numerals, ie. "ω" becomes "w", or "Θ" becomes "8".

You can find more here if you're interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish

Χαιρετισμούς

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Jeger · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:36 pm

Θα ελέγξω σε αυτό. Πάντα έχω ενδιαφερθεί για άλλες γλώσσες. Heck ένωσα σχεδόν το στρατιωτικό προκειμένου εγώ γίνομαι διερμηνέας.

Doesnt seem to translate quite right, but you get the point.

So this fire, is it in a place that a fire would be natually occuring. There are places in the states that actually thrive after a fire takes place. Its just part of the naturaly cycle of things.

ZooL · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:07 pm

Great effort Jeger! (+ babelfish

)
And it's perfectly comprehensible, except maybe for the last sentence

Regarding the fire, it is true that fire has always been a part of nature's cycle.
Unfortunately, this national park was the only remaining one near Athens, the nation's capital, where more than 50% of the whole country's population live. At the same time, Athens, is a "concrete-city", with the lowest "trees to people per sq. kilometer" ratio among all European capitals (by far...). And this European capitals' average ratio, is in turn, by far lower than the one of the United States largest cities...

In other words, you people in the States are blessed to have wonderful nature surrounding you, whereas, we here in Greece, are thoughtlessly strangling what's left of our country's natural beauties with concrete buildings...

All that literally means that we do not really afford to have our limited forests get burned... even if this is a natural process...

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ProjektKJ · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:46 pm

Gris wrote:

ProjektKJ wrote:

wow man thats quite the fire...

but good thing the kj is fire truck red.

does anyone in the states know where i can get one of those tire covers that keep your plates because the look of those is really amazing to say the least..

I've been looking for 2 years and can't find one state-side. Can't even get a dealer to order one, but you could probably get it from a Mopar parts reseller.

Everything I tried has ended up taking me overseas with a $300+ purchase price and crazy shipping charges.

ugh thats what i figured.. why cant jeep just figure it out that most of the overseas options are cooler than the in states ones..

i dont know who's running the circus we know as jeep in america but they really dont understand the consumers they are selling too..

MzLiberty02 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:19 pm

Burning Inferno :(

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