"It's as if my heart has been torn out," a resident said as she surveyed the wildfires' destruction. (AP PHOTO)"It's as if my heart has been torn out," a resident said as she surveyed the wildfires' destruction. France and Spain have been particularly hard hit, although huge blazes there died down over the weekend, providing some respite. At Porto Germeno, small religious shrines, ubiquitous in many Greek homes, still stood on the sides of roads or at the entrance to a gutted house. We have spent happy times here, and there is nothing any more," Gialia said, criticising what she said was a slow response by firefighters.