FIRESTORM

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Three firefighters die in Turkey helicopter crash
Sep 17, 2023 (AFP)
The helicopter went down while picking up water to douse a forest fire on Saturday night. The team included three Kyrgyz nationals and one Turk. One of the Kyrg...
Electric utility officials to testify at upcoming House hearing on Maui wildfires
Sep 14, 2023 (UPI)
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith, R-Va., said t...
California firefighters use AI to battle wildfires
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
But thanks to a new monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence to scan for danger, firefighters were able to quell the blaze long before it got out of ...
Massive Greece wildfire coming under control: govt
Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)
Classified by experts as a "megafire", the blaze raging in Dadia has so far destroyed more than 81,000 hectares (200,155 acres)of the forested area, protected b...
Experts blame poor govt preparation for Greek fires' devastation
Sep 02, 2023 (AFP)
The European Commission has said that the blaze in the Dadia national park, which has been burning for two weeks now, is the largest on record in Europe. That a...
Greek summer wildfires will burn over 150,000 hectares: PM
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
Like many countries around the Mediterranean, Greece has been plagued by wildfires since the start of the summer, with 26 people dying in forest fires fanned by...
Climate change boosts risk of extreme wildfires 25%: study
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
Scientists at the Breakthrough Institute, a non-profit research centre, found that human-caused warming increased the frequency of "extreme" wildfires by 25 per...
Greece blaze is 'largest wildfire ever recorded in EU
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
Firefighters have been battling the flames for 11 days in northeastern Greece which have killed at least 20 people and pose an "ecological disaster". Eleven pla...
Deadly Greek wildfire still 'out of control'
Aug 28, 2023 (AFP)
"The fire is still out of control," a spokesman for the fire service told AFP, adding that "nearly 500 firefighters backed by 100 vehicles, seven planes and thr...
'The risk is real': UK fire service preps for wildfires
Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)
The county's fire service is investing in new equipment, training and tactics to respond to the threat of wildfires, which is growing as Britain's climate becom...
Fresh evacuations as Greek wildfires burn
Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)
The largest fire is devastating the region of Evros, near the port town of Alexandroupoli and the country's border wth Turkey. On Sunday, residents of the areas...
Fires in Canada's north force another town to evacuate
Aug 26, 2023 (AFP)
The threat to Hay River, a town of about 4,000, was so great that even firefighters and essential workers were ordered to leave, authorities said. The territori...
Trash fire 'emergency' chokes locals on Indonesia's Java
Aug 25, 2023 (AFP)
The fire at the Sarimukti landfill in Indonesia's West Java province -- which serves the city of Bandung, home to 2.5 million people -- has been burning since T...
Greece struggles to tame wildfires raging for a sixth day
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
So far, 20 people have been killed in the blazes. The largest fire front was in northern Greece, where a mega blaze that erupted on Saturday near the port city ...
Evacuees return home as Spain's Tenerife fire stabilised
Aug 23, 2023 (AFP)
About 300 firefighters and soldiers backed by 18 water-dropping aircraft were battling the blaze, which broke out late August 15 in an area of steep ravines and...
Greek firefighters battle major blazes on multiple fronts
Aug 23, 2023 (AFP)
In the last two days, 19 people believed to be migrants -- including two children -- have been killed in forest blazes. Hundreds of firefighters were battling o...
Climate change supercharged 'fire weather' behind Canada blazes
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
An in-depth scientific analysis published Tuesday now bears this out, finding fire seasons of this severity are at least seven times more likely to occur as a r...
A family hangs on after losing home in Canada wildfires
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
"It lasted, like, five minutes. And then nothing," Heather MacKay says, showing video clips on her phone of smoke billowing through the kitchen before several s...
Wildfire briefly halts marine traffic on Turkish strait
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
The emergency response service said it had evacuated seven villages and was preparing to help people leave three more on Turkey's northwestern coast. "The good ...
Spanish firefighters gain upper hand against Tenerife fire
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
About 600 firefighters and soldiers backed by 22 water-dropping planes were battling the blaze, which broke out late August 15 in an area of steep ravines and c...
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