FIRESTORM

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Turkey battles forest fires for third day
Aug 17, 2024 (AFP)
Firefighters said they had partially beaten back the flames that have been threatening the port city over the last three days, although fires were still burning...
Thousands of wildfire evacuees return to Jasper, Canada
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
Approximately 25,000 residents and tourists were forced to flee the area three weeks ago as the fire suddenly swelled, outpacing firefighters' capabilities. "It...
Forest fire forces evacuations in Turkish resort
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
Authorities said 16 buildings had been damaged by fire, while Agriculture Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said at least 87 houses and 44 businesses and offices were or...
Record number of forest fires in Brazil Amazon
Aug 14, 2024 (AFP)
The number was 111 percent higher than in the same period of 2023, said Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Since the INPE started collecting...
Athens blaze reignites questions over 'fire every year'
Aug 14, 2024 (AFP)
The wildfire, which started on Sunday in Varnavas, 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the capital, had by Tuesday killed one woman, caused widespread damage and sent...
Greece counts cost as firefighters master fires around Athens
Aug 14, 2024 (AFP)
With the smoke still to clear, civil protection officials said the fire devoured 10,000 hectares (nearly 25,000 acres), destroying about 100 homes as well as ma...
Greece battles deadly wildfire for third day as EU firefighters arrive
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
The body of a Moldovan woman was found in a burned out factory and at least 66 people have been treated for injuries since the fire broke out Sunday, authoritie...
Wildfires caused major CO2 emissions last year: annual study
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
Fires in natural areas caused 8.6 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions worldwide between March 2023 and February 2024 -- 16 percent above average. Only a relatively ...
Greek firefighters calm deadly Athens inferno
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
A fire department spokesperson told AFP that "pockets of flame" were being dealt with but there were no longer "areas of particular concern". Hundreds of firefi...
Press takes aim at Greek gov't over Athens inferno
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
"Enough is enough," thundered the front page of Greece's top-selling centrist daily Ta Nea, while the liberal Kathimerini said the "out of control" inferno "had...
Residents flee as Greece wildfires rage despite 'superhuman' efforts
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
At least five more communities were told to flee by civil protection authorities on Monday, after hundreds of people evacuated Sunday from at least eight villag...
Greece's marble mountain burns in wildfires
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
A 30-kilometre (20-mile) long line of fires was moving towards Athens, reports said, and one has already engulfed the mountain, also known as Mount Pentelikon, ...
Thousands flee as wildfires bear down on Greek capital
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
Authorities ordered at least five more communities and two hospitals northeast of Athens to leave after eight nearby villages, including Marathon, were told to ...
Athens suburbs on fire as Greece calls on EU for help
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
In scenes never before seen in the Greek capital, residents wearing masks against the choking smoke were desperately dousing their homes with water hoses in the...
Algerians flee wildfires in country's northeast
Aug 11, 2024 (AFP)
Residents were told to leave homes in the fire's path in Tizi Ouzou province, news site Ennahar Online reported quoting a forest official, though it was not imm...
Firefighter, 24, is first victim of huge west Canada blaze
Aug 04, 2024 (AFP)
The man, whose name was not immediately released, became the first casualty of a huge fire near the beloved tourist town of Jasper in Alberta province. Last yea...
Philippines says Chinatown fire kills 11
Aug 02, 2024 (AFP)
People screamed as flames leapt out of upper-floor windows of the five-storey mixed use building in Manila's Binondo district, a witness said. "I was about to o...
One dead in Colorado blaze as fires ravage US west
Jul 31, 2024 (AFP)
The death occurred at a home near the town of Lyons, after a fire broke out Tuesday afternoon and consumed several buildings. It remains zero percent contained,...
Evacuations, destruction as California's largest fire of year rages
Jul 30, 2024 (AFP)
The Park Fire outside of Chico in the state's north has been raging since Wednesday in a rural region about three hours' drive northeast of San Francisco. It ha...
Canada teams subdue Jasper fire but not nearby blazes
Jul 28, 2024 (AFP)
The fires, touched off Monday by lightning strikes in a drought-stricken area, are the biggest to hit vast Jasper National Park in a century. Some 30 percent of...
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