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OAKLAND, California (AFP) — Firefighters responding from various units worked quickly to extinguish a vegetation fire near Grizzly Park in Oakland on Wednesday (August 2). Firefighters said the fire had reached a two-alarm status in scale, but that no structures of lives were in danger. The fire was partially contained by late afternoon, a local CBS affiliate reported, citing a local fire department responding to the blaze. Crews were at the scene fighting the blaze […]
ATHENS, Greece (CCTV) — A wildfire broke out in the southern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Monday afternoon, prompting local authorities to dispatch dozens of firefighters to the scene. The blaze reportedly occurred around 18:00, about 13 kilometers from the Athens International Airport, and quickly spread through tinder-dry vegetation due to strong winds, which are blowing plumes of thick black smoke into the air. Around 70 firefighters, 30 fire trucks and five helicopters […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Thousands of people fled their homes in western Canada over the weekend as strong winds fanned forest fires that have ravaged British Columbia province for more than a week. The inferno’s progress prompted authorities to take new emergency measures, ordering the evacuation of 24,000 people in the region including the town of Williams Lake which is home to some 11,000 people, reported public broadcaster CBC. Some 60 percent of affected residents […]
GOODWIN, ARIZONA, United States (Reuters) — A wildfire burning in Arizona’s Prescott National Forest has burned more than four thousand acres, forcing families to evacuate their homes. The Goodwin Fire is only five percent contained as of Tuesday afternoon (June 27). Forest officials say the fire is burning through heavy brush and timber in rugged terrain and windy conditions are spreading the flames. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s office is working with fire officials to evacuate […]
by Marianne Barriaux with Emmanuelle Michel in Lisbon Agence France Presse A fire chief reopened the debate over Portugal’s deadly forest blaze Wednesday, arguing it had a criminal origin, as hundreds of firefighters struggled to contain it. Politicians added their voice to those of local people who have questioned the handling of the disaster by the emergency services, as the funerals of the 64 killed took place. The president of the League of Firefighters, Jaime Marta […]
SAN JOSE, Antique (PIA) – – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources called for community vigilance to prevent forest fires especially that summer months have come. Joining the campaign of the Bureau of Fire Protection on fire prevention, Information Officer Joery Ocson of DENR Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Belison, Antique in an interview said that they are stepping up the construction of fire lines and patrol works in the sites of […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Climate change is making the planet hotter and drier, and has about doubled the area burned by forest fires in the western United States in the past three decades, a study said Monday. Researchers found that since 1984, drier conditions and higher temperatures have caused fires to spread across an additional 16,000 square miles (41,500 square kilometers) — an area about 30 times the size of Los Angeles. This “approximately […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – by Veronique DUPONT A fire raging east of Los Angeles spread rapidly Wednesday, posing a threat to more than 82,000 people and prompting the governor of California to declare a state of emergency. More than 1,300 firefighters were battling the giant blaze and more were on the way, but as of early Wednesday they had been unable to contain the inferno. Dramatic local TV news footage captured from the front […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Firefighters struggled Thursday to contain infernos across the western United States as experts warned that drought-striken California should prepare for an unusually intense wildfire season. Forest fires are a fact of life in much of California but have become far worse because of bone-dry conditions, with the Golden State gripped in its fifth year of drought. A fire in the Los Padres National Forest had expanded to two square […]
By Jonah Grace Lopez Eagle News Service, Canada bureau ALBERTA, Canada (Eagle News) – On May 10, coinciding with the 130th birth anniversary of the Late Brother Felix Y. Manalo, whom the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) members believe to be God’s Last Messenger, some 200 church members drove almost three hours from Edmonton to Lac la Biche in Alberta, Canada where some 2000 relief good bags were handed out. Many of […]
by Michel Comte Fort McMurray, Canada (AFP) — A ferocious wildfire wreaking havoc in Canada was expected to double in size Saturday, officials warned, cautioning that the situation in the parched Alberta oil sands region was “unpredictable and dangerous.” “This remains a big, out of control, dangerous fire,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said of the raging inferno the size of London that forced the evacuation of the city of Fort McMurray. Winds were pushing […]
(Eagle News) — Iglesia Ni Cristo members in Canada prepare food and other items to help victims of the forest fire still raging in Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. Some of those affected by the wildfires have already reached Edmonton, Canada with harrowing tales of how they had escaped the infernal flames. The usual five hours of driving time from Fort McMurray to Edmonton became 15 hours of travel time because of heavy traffic […]
