FIRESTORM

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Air quality warning as Oregon wildfire grows
Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)
Dozens of active fires in California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and other western states have ravaged more than 1,200 square miles (3,100 square kilometers), hi...
Portugal court acquits all in homicide trial, 5 years after worst wildfire
Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)
The fires broke out in the central Leiria region during a heatwave in June 2017 and burned for five days, destroying 240 square kilometres (90 square miles) of ...
Oregon blaze latest major wildfire to engulf US West
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
Dozens of active infernos in California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and other western states have ravaged more than 1,200 square miles (3,100 square kilometers),...
New wildfire spreading in central California mountains
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
The Mosquito Fire has now swept through an area of more than 41,000 acres (16,600 hectares) in the Sierra Nevada range northeast of San Francisco in just four d...
Massive California fire eases with rains
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
The Fairview Fire was 40 percent contained as of Saturday evening after forcing evacuation orders and leaving two people dead, fire officials said. The blaze er...
California wildfire doubles in size
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
Thousands of people have been told to evacuate in the face of the growing Fairview Fire, which has now spread to 19,000 acres (7,700 hectares). "Active fire beh...
Two dead, thousands told to flee California wildfire
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
Several buildings were destroyed as the Fairview fire erupted southeast of Los Angeles, racing to consume 2,400 acres (1,000 hectares) in less than 24 hours. Fi...
Thousands told to evacuate as rapid wildfire spreads in California
Sep 03, 2022 (AFP)
Footage from a local ABC affiliate news channel showed several buildings ablaze in the so-called Mill Fire, which the Siskiyou county fire department warned was...
Europe's fiery summer: a climate 'reality check'?
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
After months of cloudless days and drought, the weather has been one of the major themes of media coverage -- and discussions during family gatherings -- over t...
Brazilian Amazon records worst August for fires in 12 years
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
The Brazilian INPE space agency said its satellites had recorded 33,116 fires in the rainforest, a key buffer against global warming, in August this year, compa...
Wildfire rages as California bakes under heat dome
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
Super Scooper water-spraying aircraft were assisting the attack on the 5,000 acre (2,000 hectare) blaze that took hold of a swath of countryside near Los Angele...
Brazil records worst day for Amazon fires in 15 years
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
Satellite monitoring detected 3,358 fires on Monday, August 22, the highest number for any 24-hour period since September 2007, according to the Brazilian space...
Australia's 'Black Summer' fires affected ozone layer: study
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
The report, which appeared in the Nature journal "Scientific Reports", traced a link from the unprecedented smoke released by the fires to the ozone hole above ...
IN-FER-NO firefighting aircraft takes Ist spot in DLR Challenge
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
The task of this year's DLR Design Challenge addressed this topic and called for a whole-system approach. The organisers wanted to see systematic designs featur...
Portugal: more than 100,000 hectares destroyed in forest fires
Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)
According to a report from the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests, it is the largest area destroyed since the deadly fires of 2017 when a seri...
Putin says Russia wildfire situation 'difficult' amid heatwave
Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)
"Due to abnormal weather conditions in a number of regions of the European part of the country, the situation right now is difficult," Putin said during a telev...
Region outside Moscow declares wildfire state of emergency
Aug 22, 2022 (AFP)
Interim governor Pavel Malkov said on Telegram the measure would facilitate mobilisation of resources "to protect inhabitants and territory." Malkov added that ...
Portugal hopes cooler temperatures will tame wildfires
Aug 22, 2022 (AFP)
A current national alert would not be prolonged beyond midnight on Tuesday, "thanks to a significant improvement" in the meteorological conditions, said Interio...
Algeria fires burned UNESCO-listed park; Evacuation lifted as Spain fire stabilised
Aug 20, 2022 (AFP)
The figure cited by Rafik Baba Ahmed, former director of the El Kala Biosphere Reserve, means that the burned area of the park alone is almost double what the c...
'Tornado of fire': Algeria forest blazes kill 38
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
Deadly forest fires have become an annual scourge in Algeria, where climate change is turning large areas into a tinderbox in the baking summer months. Some res...
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