FIRESTORM

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California inmates fight wildfires for a buck an hour
Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)
For more than two years, he worked with one of some 200 crews of inmate-firefighters who in summer and fall spend more time battling blazes in the forests of Ca...
Flames turn Coffey Park to ashes
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
Eerily, they seem almost intact, rising from a smoldering landscape on Tuesday in what was left of a Coffey Park neighborhood obliterated by a fast-moving infer...
Papua New Guinea supermarket fire kills 10: reports
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
The disaster at the Splendid Star shop was made worse by the lack of any proper fire-fighting equipment in Manus province in the impoverished Pacific nation's n...
Portuguese ex-firefighter jailed for starting 2016 forest fires
Sep 12, 2017 (AFP)
He was found guilty of arson for igniting nine fires between July and September 2016 in the Castelo Branco region with its forests of eucalyptus trees, which ar...
Satellite images show wildfire smoke spreading across United States
Sep 05, 2017 (UPI)
More than 80 large wildfires are burning in nine Western states. As a result, many residents of the Western United States are dealing with poor air quality. Wil...
New forest fire rages in southeastern France
Sep 03, 2017 (AFP)
"The fire is very violent, very virulent," a local official in Var, Emmanuel Cayron, told AFP from the crisis centre which has been activated. Some 430 hectares...
Arson suspected as fire in southeast France brought under control
Sep 03, 2017 (AFP)
Two homes were destroyed in the fire that broke out in two areas on Saturday night near Hyeres, and hundreds of people were evacuated from the area. "Fires don'...
State of emergency extended in western Canada over wildfires
Sep 01, 2017 (AFP)
The announcement marks the fourth time the state of emergency has been renewed in the province since it was issued on July 7. The order allows for the mobilizat...
forces 1,100 to flee in western Canada
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
The blaze started about 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the Okanagan wine region in the residential community of Joe Rich, near Kelowna. Stoked by high winds, ...
Blazes merge into largest ever wildfire in westernmost Canada
Aug 22, 2017 (AFP)
The fires combined into a single blaze west of Quesnel that covers 467,000 hectares -- twice the size of the previous record holder that was more than 200,000 h...
Croatia fights dozens of fires along Adriatic coast
Aug 21, 2017 (AFP)
The situation was most severe in the mountains around the mainland city of Zadar, where 32 fires have broken out since late Sunday, according to Slavko Tucakovi...
Wildfires trap 2,000 villagers in Portugal
Aug 17, 2017 (AFP)
And with another wave of hot weather forecast, the government declared a state of emergency in some central and northern regions. Summer has seen a record numbe...
Portugal arsonists feed wildfire destruction
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
This year's fires, as well as killing more than 60 people and injuring hundreds more, have destroyed 141,000 hectares, civil protection officials said, citing p...
Greece asks EU for air support to battle fires
Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)
In total 146 fires have broken out across Greece since Sunday, and while most have been brought under control, authorities are worried about three on the coast ...
Fires hit Greenland after record temperatures; Corsica and Portugal ablaze
Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)
In a statement, the police said it "still discourages all traffic -- including hiking and hunting -- in two areas around Nassuttooq and Amitsorsuaq." "The fires...
Portugal battling fresh wildfires
Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)
Some 1,800 firefighters backed by hundreds of vehicles were trying to douse around 10 fires across the country, authorities said. "Despite the relentless fires,...
Tunisia loses swathes of forest in fires
Aug 05, 2017 (AFP)
Many of the blazes have been put down to a heatwave gripping the North African country, but arson has also been blamed in some cases. "Since July 29 we have exp...
Sikorksy to supply Black Hawks for Australian firefighting
Jul 28, 2017 (UPI)
The agreement would procure 10 former U.S. Army Black Hawks to be refurbished in Brisbane, Australia, and converted into aerial firebombers to combat brushfires...
Portugal battles raging forest fires
Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)
The biggest blaze was in Serta, in the Castelo Branco region, where more than a quarter of the country's firefighters were attempting to halt its progress. Port...
France battles raging fires on Cote d'Azur
Jul 25, 2017 (AFP)
The blazes have consumed 3,000 hectares (11 square miles) of land along the Mediterranean coast, in the mountainous hinterland and on the island of Corsica -- a...
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