Wildfire

'Tree touching PG&E power line sparked last year's big California wildfire'

The US state's second largest ever wildfire was ignited by a tree hitting electrical distribution lines west of a dam in the Sierra Nevada, state authorities said.

Thousands evacuated as wildfire burns hundreds of homes in western US

Wind-fuelled fires prompt evacuation orders for more than 30,000 residents in two towns just east of the Rockies near Colorado state's Denver city, authorities say.

Thousands of cranes die in Israel's 'deadliest wildlife disaster'

Bird flu kills at least 5,200 cranes in the northern region, forcing farmers to cull chickens, as authorities race to pick up carcasses of the migratory birds.

Syrian regime executes 24 men over deadly wildfires in 2020

The men were accused of starting fires in Syria that killed at least three people and damaged 370 homes in September of last year.

Central Russia battles 'extreme' wildfires fuelled by heatwave

In Russia’s coldest region of Yakutia, fires have burned through an area larger than Portugal, with 50 forest fires currently ablaze.

Thousands evacuated in France as fierce wildfire rages near Saint-Tropez

France dispatches hundreds of firefighters to battle a wildfire that broke out in Var in the south, where several campsites have been evacuated and people asked to avoid congesting the roads.

Raging wildfires in Algeria claims lives

Photographs posted on social media show huge walls of flame and billowing clouds of smoke towering over villages in the forested hills in Algeria, becoming the latest Mediterranean country to be hit by wildfires.

'It's huge': Fire rages on Evia island on sixth day of Greek wildfires

Blaze on Evia ripped through thousands of hectares (acres) of pristine forest across its northern part, forcing the evacuation of dozens of villages.

Huge California wildfire grows, but weather helps firefighters

The Dixie Fire has ravaged 446,723 acres in four counties, up from the previous day's 434,813. That area is larger than Los Angeles, and has surpassed the sweep of the vast Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon.

Thousands evacuated in Greece as fires continue to rage

Thousands of residents and vacationers in areas where fires broke out days ago have fled by land and by sea as firefighters and volunteers battled through the night.

California’s Dixie Fire decimates mountain town of Greenville

The Dixie Fire is the sixth biggest in the state’s history and is still spreading due to hot, bone-dry, gusty weather.

California’s deadly Dixie wildfire destroys businesses and homes

Officials in northern California warn residents of two communities in the path of the raging blaze to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onwards.