FIRESTORM

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Wildfires ravage Greek island of Evia
Aug 16, 2021 (ESA)
This false-colour Copernicus Sentinel-2 image was captured yesterday on 11 August, and has been processed in a way that included the near-infrared channel which...
Israel asks for help as forest fires rage across Mediterranean nations
Aug 16, 2021 (AFP)
"The Greek foreign minister already said he will help as much as possible," Foreign Minister Yair Lapid wrote on Twitter. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat ...
Fire near Jerusalem forces village evacuations
Aug 15, 2021 (AFP)
Firemen supported by firefighting aircraft were working to extinguish the blaze as the smoke blotted out the sky across much of the city. A spokesman for Prime ...
No survivors of Turkey fire-fighting plane crash as floods kill 55
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
Ankara and Moscow announced that all eight people on the Russian plane had perished on the fire-fighting mission. The air tragedy came just as Turkey was gainin...
Algeria mourns more dead as firefighters battle forest blazes
Aug 14, 2021 (AFP)
The government has blamed arsonists and a blistering heatwave for dozens of blazes that have raged across the country's north since Monday, but experts have als...
Firefighters bring northeastern Spain blaze under control
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
A punishing heatwave has fanned wildfires across southern European in recent weeks, claiming lives in Greece, Italy and Turkey, as experts warn that climate cha...
Russia ramps up Siberia blazes battle
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
While Siberia sees an annual wildfire season each summer, the fires have burned with an increasing intensity in recent years, which Russian weather officials an...
Greece facing 'ecological disaster' from raging wildfires
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
Rain overnight in some areas and falling temperatures appeared to have eased the situation after two weeks of devastating blazes, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mi...
Italy firefighters battle 500 blazes after record heat
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
Firefighters said there were over 500 blazes reported overnight as the anticyclone dubbed Lucifer sweeps across Italy, sending temperatures soaring and causing ...
Almost 100,000 hectares of forest burned in Greek fires
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mistotakis described the 586 fires that ravaged several regions of Greece in just a few days as "a natural disaster of exceptional magni...
Siberia feels the brunt of climate change as wildfires rage
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
It was a rare day for this summer -- for once the sky in the world's coldest city was not shrouded in a sepia orange toxic smog, produced by the third straight ...
Algeria mourns 69 dead as Mediterranean wildfires spread
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared three days of national mourning starting from Thursday, and authorities say they suspect widespread arson after so many ...
Putin orders reinforcements to fight Siberia wildfires
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Wildfires have ripped through Siberia's forests with growing intensity in recent years, which Russian weather officials and environmentalists have linked to cli...
Algeria wildfires kill 42, authorities blame arson
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Late Tuesday the toll stood at 25 soldiers and 17 civilians killed. Photographs posted on social media show huge walls of flame and billowing clouds of smoke to...
EU countries boost fire-fighting help to Greece
Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)
There are now nine planes, 1,000 firefighters and 200 vehicles deployed by European Union states, a statement said. France, Germany, Poland, Austria and Slovaki...
Siberian wildfires worsen as smoke reaches North Pole
Aug 09, 2021 (AFP)
Devastating forest fires have ripped across Siberia with increasing regularity over the past few years, which Russia's weather officials and environmentalists h...
Mass evacuations as Greek fires rage, but Turkey saved by the rain
Aug 07, 2021 (AFP)
At least 1,450 Greek firefighters along with 15 aircraft were battling the infernos, with reinforcements arriving from other countries, the fire service said. T...
'Our homeland is burning': Volunteers join Siberia wildfire fight
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
As the son poured the fuel onto the forest floor, watching as the rising flames rendered white birch trunks black, his father shovelled dirt onto embers that po...
NASA tools could help fight fires from the sky and the ground
Aug 05, 2021 (SPX)
Their demonstration at a wildfire simulation outside Redding, California, showed how emergency responders of all kinds could work more safely and effectively us...
'We need more people': Exhausted firefighters battle Siberia blazes
Aug 05, 2021 (AFP)
Members of Russia's Aerial Forest Protection Service, his team spent a recent July evening patrolling a five-kilometre (three-mile) trench they had dug at the e...
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