Portugal

Hundreds of volunteers plant trees to replace Portugal's burned forest

Portugal has started the process of recovering huge areas of forest lost in fires that struck the country last year. On Sunday over 3,000 volunteers planted around 67,000 trees in Leiria in central Portugal. More than 80 percent of the pine forest was lost in the blazes that also claimed 114 lives.

26 March 2018

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan fire: 24 killed at drug treatment centre

A fire at a drug abuse treatment centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, has killed 24 people.

2 March 2018

Australia

Australia swelters in record high temperatures

Bushfires sweep across three states whipped up by high winds

7 January 2018

USA

Child playing with stove started deadly New York City fire

Officials say Thursday's Bronx apartment building blaze spread after the toddler's mother failed to shut the kitchen door as she fled with him and his younger sibling. Twelve people died and a further four are in critical condition in hospital

29 December 2017

USA

California burns as Thomas fire becomes state's third-largest

City of Santa Barbara now threatened by winds whipping inferno towards coast as fire-plagued 2017 approaches a record year's end.

17 December 2017

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Hills in flames: new fires threaten Santa Barbara

California state officials have ordered new evacuations across coastal towns in Santa Barbara County.

11 December 2017

World News

Firefighters make progress in California fires

Firefighters in southern California have gained some ground battling raging wildfires but strong winds are forecast to return with force

10 December 2017

USA

Milder weather eases fight against California wildfires

Slower winds have allowed more helicopters and air tankers to safely complete missions dropping water and fire retardant

9 December 2017

USA

New fires ravage California

New blazes have broken out in southern California where 200,000 people have been evacuated amid raging wildfires

8 December 2017

USA

California man saves bunny from blaze

A man rescues a rabbit from the California wildfires.

7 December 2017

USA

Dangerous wildfires rage across California

7 December 2017

No Comment

California wildfire: thousands evacuated from Ventura County

5 December 2017

World News

Warning about risky home appliances

Lawyers who represent victims of faulty products are sounding the alarm in the UK

24 November 2017

Portugal

Portugal fears fire risk from late heatwave

High unseasonal temperatures are good news for tourists, but bad news for Portugal's dried-out forests, with strong winds forecast.

27 October 2017

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Homes evacuated as wildfires rage in Italy

Residents were moved from their homes as firefighters battled to extinguish a wildfire around Val di Susa.

23 October 2017

Portugal

Political turmoil in Portugal over deadly forest fires

Portugal's parliament holds minute silence for forest fire victims as the political blame game begins

19 October 2017

No Comment

Deadly wildfires ravage Portugal and Spain

18 October 2017

Portugal

Portugal's interior minister resigns after fire disasters

The minister said in her resignation letter that after the fires of recent days "I considered that I didn't have the political and personal conditions to continue in my post."

18 October 2017

Portugal

'Over 30 dead' as wildfires rage in Portugal and Spain

Officials say many of the hundreds of fires ravaging northwestern parts of the Iberian peninsula have been started deliberately.

16 October 2017

USA

Death toll rises in Californian wildfires

The death toll from California's deadliest fires in the state's history has risen to at least 40, with hundreds of people still mis

15 October 2017