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The season’s first major wildfires have spread to roughly 10,000 hectares across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities issued an evacuation order for a community in British Columbia and warned of poor air quality across provinces. In…
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Residents in three areas in Australia’s northern Queensland state were ordered to evacuate their homes on Wednesday, as bushfires burned out of control. Firefighters including those flown in from across Australia and New Zealand have…
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Canada’s western province of British Columbia declared a state of emergency on Friday as firefighters battled a wildfire raging in the hills and mountains above the town of West Kelowna forcing thousands of evacuations. West Kelowna, a…
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Wildfires that have scorched Greece for more than two weeks were on Saturday mostly under control, but firefighters remained in key hotspots with strong winds still a threat, officials said. Three fires broke out on Saturday in the…
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Preparations were underway to salvage a cargo ship packed with electric vehicles that caught fire off the Dutch coast, officials said, in an operation intended to avert an ecological disaster. An electric car is suspected of having…
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Bangladesh’s fire department said it will request an intelligence probe into possible sabotage after a blaze gutted thousands of shops at a shopping center in Dhaka on Saturday, just days after another massive fire destroyed a popular…
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Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilized in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city’s oldest neighborhoods in black smoke. No casualties have been…
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Four people were seriously hurt in an overnight fire at a hospital in Berlin, including a patient who sustained life-threatening injuries, authorities said Monday. A man was detained in connection with the blaze. The fire on the third…
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The number of people killed in a fire that ripped through a ferry in the southern Philippines has risen to 31, the local governor said Thursday, after more bodies were found inside the burned-out wreckage. “We initially have 13 deaths…
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A British man and a hotel worker have died in a fire that broke out at a resort in Marrakech on Wednesday, The Sun reported. The blaze broke out in a spa in the five-star Jaal Riad Resort, trapping the father of two and the hotel worker…
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