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Rio De Janeiro -
Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 percent in June compared to the same month last year, making it the worst June in 13 years, authorities revealed on Wednesday.
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Rio De Janeiro -
Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 percent in June compared to the same month last year, making it the worst June in 13 years, authorities revealed on Wednesday.
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Moscow -
Best known as a vast, cold tundra, Russia's sprawling Siberia region is being transformed by climate change that has brought with it warmer temperatures, forest fires and growing swarms of hungry moth larvae.
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Buenos Aires -
Two firefighters died and another 15 were wounded after two explosions in a perfume shop in Buenos Aires Tuesday as they were trying to extinguish a blaze, the emergency services said.
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Apo -
Japanese police on Wednesday formally arrested a man on suspicion of an arson attack on an animation studio in Kyoto last year that killed 36 people, a police spokesman said.
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Cobargo -
Victims of Australia's catastrophic bushfires are still living in tents, garages and makeshift shelters months after the blazes ended, with efforts to rebuild their lives hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Los Angeles -
Eleven firefighters were injured, three of them critically, in downtown Los Angeles when a fire in a commercial smoke shop sparked a major explosion and spread to nearby structures on Saturday evening, officials said.
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Sanktpeterburg -
Officials launched a probe into ventilators used at some Russian medical facilities on Tuesday after five coronavirus patients, including three attached to the breathing machines, died in a fire at a Saint Petersburg hospital.
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Moscow -
A fire broke out in a retirement home in the Moscow region, killing at least nine people, local authorities said Monday.
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Warsaw -
Massive wildfires have ravaged Poland's largest nature reserve, the Biebrza National Park, as the country faces its worst drought in years.
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Athens -
A fire ripped through one of Greece's largest migrant camps leaving widespread damage and many people homeless after the death of an Iraqi woman sparked unrest, officials said Sunday.
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Kiev -
Ukraine said Tuesday only small isolated fires remain at the scene of a blaze that erupted 10 days ago in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986.
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Kiev -
Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled a forest blaze in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone while officials insisted there was no risk to the ruined reactor and nearby storage facilities for nuclear waste.
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Port-au-prince -
A fire ripped through one of Haiti's oldest churches overnight, officials said Monday, causing the dome of the UNESCO-listed world heritage site to collapse.
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Caracas -
Venezuela's electoral system was damaged but not destroyed after a fire broke out in a warehouse used to store voting equipment, the National Electoral Council said Sunday.
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Paris -
Paris police reported a fire Friday near the Gare de Lyon train station, which was partially evacuated amid violent protests against a Congolese singer due to give a concert nearby.
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Sydney -
Australia set up a national inquiry Thursday into its month-long bushfire crisis that affected three in four Australians and prompted widespread criticism of the government for its sluggish response to the blazes.
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By AFP
Kenscoff -
Fifteen children were killed when a fire swept through an unlicensed orphanage outside Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, a judge told AFP on Friday, highlighting the severe shortcomings of the island nation's child welfare institutions.
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Sydney -
Heavy rain was raising hopes Friday for an end to Australia's unprecedented bushfire crisis, as downpours douse blazes that have burned out of control for months.
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Sydney -
Authorities in Canberra on Friday declared the first state of emergency in almost two decades as a bushfire bore down on the Australian capital.
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Sydney -
Australia was bracing for a heatwave to sweep across the country's fire-ravaged southeast in the coming days, with the forecast stoking fears the soaring temperatures could inflame bushfires.
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Paris -
Thousands of French firefighters on Tuesday took to the streets of Paris in a pyrotechnic protest to demand better working conditions, igniting flares and even setting their fireproof jackets alight.
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The death toll from a powerful gas tanker explosion that ripped through a district of Lima rose to eight on Friday, after four more victims succumbed to severe burn injuries overnight, Peru's health ministry said.
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The death toll from a powerful gas tanker explosion that ripped through a district of Lima rose to eight on Friday, after four more victims succumbed to severe burn injuries overnight, Peru's health ministry said.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Investigators Friday began searching the wreckage of a large tanker aircraft which crashed while battling devastating bushfires in Australia, killing three US crew members.
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Sydney -
A large water-bombing plane crashed while fighting fires southwest of Sydney on Thursday, killing all three US crew on board, Australian officials said.
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Sydney -
Three American crew helping to battle Australia's devastating bushfires were killed Thursday when their water-bombing plane crashed in mountainous terrain during a sortie to tackle another outbreak of the deadly blazes.
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Sydney -
Australian firefighters are on high alert for the possibility that scorching temperatures and strong winds could whip up new bushfires on Thursday, coming after rain brought welcome respite to fire-ravaged areas.
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Moscow -
Eleven people including 10 from Uzbekistan died when a fire ripped through a wooden shack in a remote Siberian village on Tuesday, in the latest tragedy involving migrant workers in Russia.
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Sydney -
Australia's bushfires and other climate change effects are devastating the habitats of critically endangered species and driving the native platypus towards extinction, according to surveys highlighting the country's vulnerability to rising temperature...
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Fire Image
Amanda the dog with her puppies after a house fire in Chile reddit/J. Monsalve
TRANQUIL: The grounds at Harbin Hot Springs are seen in January, months before the facility was destroyed by the Valley fire that devastated the Northern California city of Middletown this week. T. O'Rourke/Harbin.org
Sunset behind the Mount Charleston fire. Henderson, Nevada. July 9, 2013 Scotty Goedeck
At midtown Toronto, black smoke could be seen in the sky due to a fire on top of a condo at the Waterfront.
Smoke from a fire spreading in the countryside can be seen from Fuengirola on the coast.
Fire in downtown Toronto destroyed heritage building at Dundas and Gould
A Channel 2 News reporter takes a photo of a firetruck
Views of the La Atalaya area after the fire. The sky is still full of smoke. Mark Sewell
From Stater Brothers shopping center, a view of the fire approaching Snow Summit ski resort. You can see a firefighting airplane at the bottom left.
Hastings Pier Glen Diamond
Canadian Armed Forces video image of HMCS Protecteur adrift in the mid-Pacific after an engine room fire. Canadian Armed Forces
A forest fire rages out of control on Mallorca in the Balearic Islands, Spain - July 2013. YouTube
Luminarias festival in Spain YouTube
A tire fire in Bangkok's Rama IV during the political unrest in Thailand by Cengiz Yar Jr/HFWH
A fire engulfed a psychiatric hospital close to Moscow in Russia. YouTube
Smoke from a fire spreading in the countryside can be seen from Fuengirola on the coast.
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