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Lisbon -
The death toll from forest fires that have devastated parts of central Portugal in recent days rose again on Friday to 44, following the death of one of the people injured in the blazes, authoriities said.
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Lisbon -
The death toll from forest fires, which ravaged swathes of land in central Portugal in recent days, has risen to 43 after the discovery of another corpse, authorities said Thursday.
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New Delhi -
An explosion at an illegal firecracker factory in eastern India killed seven workers and injured nine others in the hours before Thursday's Diwali festival, officials said.
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San Francisco -
The death toll from California's wildfires rose to 42 on Wednesday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said, as rescuers found another body.
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Lisbon -
Portugal's interior minister has been replaced amid criticism over the government's handling of a series of deadly forest fires that have killed more than 100 people in four months.
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Paris -
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky and his partner were charged on Wednesday with torching the facade of a Paris branch of France's central bank and placed in pre-trial detention, a legal source said.
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Lisbon -
Portugal's Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa resigned Wednesday as criticism mounts over the government's handling of a series of deadly forest fires that killed more than 100 people in four months.
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San Francisco -
Body recovery teams carried out a grim search for victims of California's devastating wildfires on Monday as firefighters made progress battling blazes which have killed at least 41 people.
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Madrid -
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Monday that arsonists were to blame for most of the deadly wildfires raging in northwestern Spain which have so far killed three people and injured dozens.
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Lisboa -
At least 31 people have died in fires ravaging forests in northern and central Portugal over the past 24 hours, rescuers said Monday afternoon, after three people were killed in Spain in blazes sparked by arsonists and fanned by Hurricane Ophelia.
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Madrid -
Wildfires whipped by strong wind gusts spawned by Hurricane Ophelia burned across northwestern Spain on Sunday, leaving three people dead, officials said.
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Santa Rosa -
The death toll from California's wildfires rose to 40 on Sunday but firefighters reported progress in battling the flames, and thousands of evacuees were gradually being allowed to return home.
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San Francisco -
The death toll from California's wildfires rose to 33 on Friday as firefighters made some progress in containing the infernos but said intensifying winds were a concern.
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Napa -
Odd pockets of lush green -- grape vines, believe it or not -- stand out amid the ashen landscape left by northern California's wildfires.It turns out vines are pretty sturdy when it comes to surviving flames, and they act as a sort of fire wall.
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Santa Rosa -
The death toll from raging California wildfires rose to 31 Thursday as body recovery teams used cadaver dogs to locate victims, making it the deadliest series of blazes in the state's history.
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Santa Rosa -
Michael Desmond held firm to a scorched mailbox and wept as he vowed that his childhood home -- turned to cinder by wildfire -- would rise anew.
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Santa Rosa -
More than 200 fire engines and firefighting crews from around the country were being rushed to California on Wednesday to help battle infernos which have left at least 21 people dead and thousands homeless.
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Napa -
More than a dozen fast-moving wildfires tearing through through California's wine country have killed at least 10 people, destroying hundreds of homes, authorities said Monday.
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Moscow -
Three thousand people were evacuated from a shopping centre in Moscow on Sunday after a massive fire broke out, Russia's emergency services ministry said.
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Accra -
Ghanaians on Sunday pushed the government to improve safety at fuel stations after four people were killed when a tanker truck carrying natural gas caught fire in the nation's capital, triggering explosions.
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Accra -
At least three people were killed and dozens injured after a tanker truck carrying natural gas caught fire in Ghana's capital, Accra, triggering explosions at two fuel stations, emergency services said Sunday.
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Strasbourg -
Four children and an adult were killed when a fire engulfed a social housing block in the French city of Mulhouse on Sunday night, authorities said.
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Ukrainian authorities evacuated more than 30,000 people Wednesday from the central Vinnytsia region after a huge arms depot storing missiles caught fire and exploded in what prosecutors said was a possible act of "sabotage".
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Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysian police have arrested seven suspects accused of intentionally starting a fire that killed 23 children and teachers at an Islamic school, an official said Saturday.
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Kiev -
A fire swept through a children's camp in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa, killing two girls and leaving a third one missing, authorities said Saturday.
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Kuala Lumpur -
Victims of a fire at an Islamic school in the Malaysian capital that killed 23 boys and teachers were buried Friday, as hundreds of mourners looked on in stunned silence.
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London -
An inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire disaster opened on Thursday with a minute's silence to remember the victims, as survivors demanded answers over the west London apartment block blaze that killed at least 80 people.
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Pedr -
Joaquim Godinho and his wife Edite watch with blank faces and heavy hearts as a bulldozer demolishes the charred remains of their home of nearly 30 years.
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Kuala Lumpur -
Twenty-three people, mostly children, were killed Thursday by a blaze that tore through a Malaysian religious school, trapping them in a dormitory with metal grilles barring its windows.
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Kuala Lumpur -
Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed when a fire tore through a religious school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, an official said.
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A U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service King Air lead plane guides a C-130J Hercules from the 146th Airlift Wing during firefighting operations in Scurry County, Texas DVIDSHUB
Someone taking a photo of a fire in Helsinki with a cellphone Petteri Salunen
AFTERMATH: New Brunswick, N.J., firefighters do mop-up work Friday after a three-alarm fire gutted the historic Poile Zedek synagogue on Neilson Street. No injuries were reported. Rickyrab/Wikimedia Commons
The 2015 Amazon Fire TV and Gaming Controller Amazon
EYES: Smoke rises over the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from the explosion and fire at the Chevron Richmond oil refinery in 2012. Ashstar01/Wikimedia Commons
Bushfire near Moyston, Victoria, Australia. Nine News Video Screenshot
A gas tanker exploded in Almaty, Kazakhstan causing huge damage. YouTube
Smoke from a fire spreading in the countryside can be seen from Fuengirola on the coast.
2 factory fires in Pakistan caused at least 261 deaths. Video screen capture
City of Toronto spokesperson, Rob Andrusevich
Smoke above Big Bear Village
What is to be done with this home? Most likely nothing...
Fire in downtown Toronto destroyed heritage building at Dundas and Gould
Firefighters and police officers form a wall between Westboro Baptist Church protesters and those attending the funeral of a Sandy Hook Elementary School victim. imgur
This fire at the Deonar garbage dump started on Saturday. One India News
Division Commander of Toronto Fire Services, Bob O'Hallaran.
I found this smoke evocative, considering hominins have been using fire for a million years in this place. Was it Homo habilis down there?
Fire in downtown Toronto destroyed heritage building at Dundas and Gould
A fire burning in Bangkok by Timo Kozlowski
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