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LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg (Reuters) – EU environment ministers gathered in Luxembourg on Monday (June 19) held a minute of silence for the victims of the forest fire in Portugal that killed at least 62 over the weekend in Pedro Grande, a mountainous area about 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Lisbon. More than 1.000 firefighters on Monday were still battling Portugal’s deadliest forest blaze, while public prosecutors opened an investigation into the causes of the fire.
PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal (Reuters) – The full extent of the damage caused by a forest fire that ravaged parts of Portugal was clearly visible on Monday (June 19) as the Spanish airforce released video filmed from a firefighting plane that has been used to dump thousands of litres of water over the area. The video filmed on Sunday (June 18) showed a vast blackened area of fire-damaged terrain. In some areas smoke cover has not […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) – Firefighters continue to battle an explosive wildfire Sunday (April 17) which blackened more than 500 acres just hours after it ripped through Castaic Lake in California, according to NBC News. NBC reported that no structures were immediately threatened by the fires. Castaic Lake is in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of northwestern Los Angeles County, California.
LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) – Holiday makers arriving on Sunday (June 18) night at Lisbon’s airport said they were concerned about the situation in Portugal following a forest fire that has killed at least 62 people in the central part of the country. The death toll released by Jorge Gomes, the secretary of state for internal affairs, has gradually climbed from the 19 initially announced late on Saturday. Gomes said most of the victims were caught […]
LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) – Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Sunday (June 18) addressed the nation following a huge forest fire that had raged for two days killing at least 62 people. De Sousa said the country’s pain had “no measure” and called deadly blaze as a tragedy “without precedent in the history of Portugal’s democracy.” Local residents said they had been left to their own devices and had seen no firefighters for hours […]
VICHUQUEN, Chile (Reuters) — The worst wildfires in Chile’s modern history which are ravaging wide swaths of the country’s central-south regions, have destroyed the homes of at least 140 families who had already lost their homes in the country’s massive 2010 quake and tsunami. Most of the affected families are from the hard-hit Maule region, local media reported. Fifty-two-year-old Cecilia Correa lost her home in the town of Vichuquen. Correa had fled the coast after […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Six people — among them four firefighters and two police — have now been killed battling vast forest fires in central Chile, officials said Wednesday. “I can now say officially that there are two more fatalities — two Chilean police who were found in the Maule River,” said Interior Minister Mario Fernandez, raising the total death toll to six. Earlier in the day a firefighter died after getting stuck while trying […]
COLORADO, United States (Reuters) — fast-growing wildfire prompted the evacuation on Monday (November 28) from an area of Green Mountain, Colorado, NBC said. The blaze charred about 300 acres and could be seen as far as 12 miles (19.31 km) away from Denver, according to local media. Firefighters managed to contain some 70 percent of the blaze, officials said. The fire was spreading in the mountains despite the cold weather with temperatures as low […]
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) — Wildfires tore across central and northern Israel on Friday (November 25) forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee the city of Haifa, as leaders blamed arsonists for some of the blazes and branded them “terrorists”. The fires have been burning in multiple locations for the past three days but intensified on Thursday (November 24), fueled by unseasonably dry weather and strong easterly winds. With fires burning in the forests west of […]
HAIFA, Israel (AFP) – by Jonah Mandel Raging bushfires forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from parts of Israel’s third city Haifa on Thursday as firefighters struggled to control blazes across the country. Some residents were trapped in their homes as the army called up reservists to help cope with a third day of fires which authorities speculated could have been started deliberately. Haifa municipality spokeswoman Or Doron told AFP that 50,000 […]
LISBON, Portugal (AFP) — Portugal’s Algarve tourist region was the latest to be hit by violent forest fires Thursday, prompting the evacuation of a luxury hotel and three hamlets, officials said. Backed by water-dropping aircraft, over 2,700 firefighters were trying to bring under control some 100 blazes nationwide despite a respite from the intense heat which has gripped the country in recent days. About 50 tourists, including many British nationals, were evacuated from a hotel […]
JAVEA, Spain (AFP) – Spanish authorities on Tuesday blamed arsonists and record temperatures for wildfires ravaging the eastern coast near the popular resort of Benidorm that have forced 1,400 people to flee. Hundreds of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft were battling the largest of several fires which began Sunday near the resort of Javea, up the coast from Benidorm on Spain’s Costa Blanca. Another blaze was raging near the mountain town of Bolulla, about 40 kilometres […]
