FIRESTORM

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Thousands told to stay home as Spain forest fire rages on
Jul 08, 2025 (AFP)
The Spanish army's emergency response unit said it had deployed overnight near the northeastern city of Tarragona to assist local authorities. The blaze has dev...
Syria fights 'catastrophic' fires for fourth day
Jul 06, 2025 (AFP)
Syrian emergency workers have faced tough conditions including high temperatures, strong winds, rugged mountainous terrain in the coastal province and the dange...
Wildfires spread across Europe
Jul 05, 2025 (AFP)
In Turkey, where firefighters have battled more than 600 fires in the drought-hit nation over the past week, authorities said a forestry worker injured while fi...
California's biggest wildfire of the year spreads to 70,000 acres
Jul 05, 2025 (AFP)
The "Madre Fire" broke out on Wednesday in San Luis Obispo, a rural county in the heart of the US state. Around 200 people were ordered to evacuate, with dozens...
Man arrested over fire on Greek island of Evia
Jul 05, 2025 (AFP)
The man was allegedly clearing vegetation from a plot of land when the fire broke out and quickly got out of control, public broadcaster ERT reported. Some 1,00...
Winds hamper firefighters in Turkey as heat wave scorches Southern Europe
Jun 30, 2025 (AFP)
The fire began around midday on Sunday in the Seferihisar district, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of the resort city of Izmir, fuelled by high winds o...
Balkans braces for more blazes as heatwave intensifies
Jun 25, 2025 (AFP)
Fires already ripped through dozens of homes in Croatia's tourism-focused south on the weekend and firefighters in Albania battled to get more than a dozen blaz...
Brazil records 62% jump in areas burned; Greece declares emergency on Chios
Jun 24, 2025 (AFP)
Brazil experienced historic fires last year, particularly in the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest on the planet that is key to absorbing greenhouse gases...
Globalstar expands wildfire safety tools with Technosylva satellite tech
Jun 21, 2025 (SPX)
One of the most recent developments involves ongoing implementation with INFOCA, the fire agency for Andalusia, Spain. As one of Europe's largest emergency resp...
Outdated maps and scant data hinder EU fight against forest fires
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
About 39 percent of the European Union's land, some 160 million hectares, is covered by forests and woodlands, according to the EU data. But about 0.2 percent o...
Canada town near Vancouver ready to evacuate as fire nears
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
A state of emergency has been declared in Squamish, British Columbia, just 64 kilometres (40 miles) north of Vancouver, a city where the greater metropolitan ar...
Experts warn Canada's wildfire season likely to be massive again
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
More than 220 active fires were burning across the country Tuesday, with half of them considered out of control. More than 3.3 million hectares (12,700 square m...
Military aids evacuations as Canada wildfires expand eastward
Jun 09, 2025 (AFP)
An airlift of Sandy Lake First Nation members started over the weekend as a 156,346-hectare blaze overwhelmed firefighting efforts and brushed up against the re...
c-FIRST Team Sets Sights on Future Fire-observing Satellite Constellations
Jun 04, 2025 (SPX)
A novel space-based sensor for observing wildfires could allow first responders to monitor burns at a global scale, paving the way for future small satellite (S...
Canada, US warn of air quality hazards as Canadian fire smoke reaches Europe
Jun 03, 2025 (AFP)
Alerts were issued for parts of Canada and the neighboring United States warning of hazardous air quality. A water tanker air base was consumed by flames in Sas...
Canadian wildfire emergency spreads to second province
May 29, 2025 (AFP)
"It's a very serious situation that we're faced with in Saskatchewan," the province's Premier Scott Moe told a news conference. "We are putting in place every m...
Thousands on verge of wildfire evacuations in western Canada
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
Eighteen fires are active in the province. Nearly 200,000 hectares of forests have been scorched in just the past month, or triple the annual average over the p...
Huge explosion reported at China chemical plant
May 27, 2025 (AFP)
The blast occurred at the Youdao Chemical plant at around 11:57 am (0357 GMT) in Gaomi, a town in Shandong province around 450 kilometres (280 miles) southeast ...
Forests face carbon reversal threat as wildfires undermine offset strategies
May 26, 2025 (SPX)
Titled Beyond Planting Trees: Taking Advantage of Satellite Observations to Improve Forest Carbon Management and Wildfire Prevention, the report cautions that t...
US power company to pay $82.5m for California wildfire
May 23, 2025 (AFP)
The 2020 Bobcat Fire destroyed dozens of buildings as it tore through the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles. The US government said Southern California...
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