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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The fire danger was elevated across wider swathes of southern Australia on Thursday, with residents warned to avoid at-risk areas as smoke from bushfires choked Sydney and other major cities. Devastating fires along the country’s east coast have claimed six lives and destroyed more than 500 homes since mid-October, with climate change and unseasonably hot, dry conditions fuelling the unprecedented blazes. Now the fire danger has moved into states further south, […]
(Eagle News) — At least seven people were hurt and around P180,000 worth of property was damaged after a fire hit a residential area in Caloocan City on Thursday, Nov. 14. A report identified the injured in the fire that struck Barangay 33 at 10:58 a.m. as Roberto Sison, 59; Carmelita Revilla, 79; Gloria Policarpio, 64; Rolando de Guzman; Wilfredo Benitez; Marilou Garcia, 50; and Elizar Tatasin, 40. Initial investigation showed the blaze started in […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The death toll from devastating bushfires in eastern Australia has risen to four after a man’s body was discovered in a scorched area of bushland, police said Thursday. Residents found the body outside the New South Wales town of Kempsey, one of several areas hit by bushfires in recent days. Police said formal identification was yet to take place but it was believed to be the body of a 58-year-old man […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A helicopter crashed while fighting a bushfire in northern Australia on Wednesday and the pilot managed to survive with only minor injuries, officials said. “The helicopter crashed during waterbombing operations at the Pechey fire today,” a Queensland Fire and Emergency Service spokesperson told AFP. A rescue helicopter was sent to the scene and the pilot was treated for minor injuries, a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman told AFP. “We transported one male […]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Six people were killed and 15 injured when a leaking oil pipeline caught fire in Egypt’s northern province of Bahira on Wednesday, officials said. The head of Egypt’s oil pipelines authority, Abdelmoneim Hafez, said the leak was the work of “thieves” siphoning off oil. The fire broke out on the pipeline near Itay al-Baroud, a village half-way between Cairo and Alexandria, health ministry spokesman Khaled Mugahed said in a statement. The […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia escaped the worst-feared impacts of bushfires during a day of “catastrophic” conditions but the threat remains high, with dozens of fires still blazing and expectations of a brutal summer ahead. More than 300 new fires — including 19 that reached emergency level — were sparked Tuesday during high temperatures, gusting winds and dry conditions that were described as the worst on record. Thousands of firefighters deployed to combat the fires […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — A massive fire at the oldest hospital in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa forced the evacuation of around 100 patients late Tuesday, the police and Kenyan Red Cross said. Coast regional police commander Rashid Yakub said: “We have established that fire started as a result of a gas cylinder that exploded”. “But luckily we have no casualties because all patients and staff were evacuated in time,” he said. Kenya Red […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — At least two people have died and 100 homes have been destroyed as an unprecedented number of bushfires tore through eastern Australia Saturday. New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian also said seven people were unaccounted for, as firefighters tried to contain dozens of out-of-control blazes that have raged in the state since Friday. “I’m sorry to say that number can increase during the day,” […]
(Eagle News) — A fire hit a Quezon City market on Friday, Nov. 8. Firemen are at present trying to put out the fire that hit the Galas market past 4 a.m. A fourth alarm has so far been raised. No other details were available.
(Eagle News)–Around 40 families lost their homes in a fire in Quezon City on Sunday, Nov. 3. The Bureau of Fire Protection said the fire that started in a house on Kaunlaran St. in Barangay Commonwealth at 6:15 p.m. also left damage to property worth P150,000. Authorities said the blaze quickly spread to adjacent houses and engulfed nearby market stalls. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority earlier said the fire hit the Commonwealth market in Litex. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A major fire ripped through a historic Japanese castle on the southern island of Okinawa early on Thursday morning, spreading throughout the World Heritage site’s complex, local authorities said. Shuri Castle is a key part of a complex dating back to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and is believed to have been in use from around the 1400s. The current structure is a reconstruction based on original plans and photos of the […]
by Josh Edelson with Jocelyne Zablit in Los Angeles HEALDSBURG, United States (AFP) — California’s governor declared a state-wide emergency on Sunday as a huge wind-fueled blaze forced evacuations and massive power blackouts, threatening tourist towns in the state’s famed Sonoma wine region. The so-called Kincade Fire, north of San Francisco, spread to 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) overnight, with only 10 percent containment by early afternoon Sunday, state fire authorities said. The blaze, the largest […]
