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Nainital Wildfires

27 Apr 2024

Indian Army, IAF Called In As Forestfire In Nainital Reaches High Court Colony

Indian Air Force's Mi-17 helicopter has been deployed to extinguishing the wildfires.

Uttarakhand forest fire

27 Apr 2024

Uttarakhand Forest Fire: Massive fire broke out in Nainital Forest

Chile Forest Fires

05 Feb 2024

Chile: 112 Lives Lost In Worst Disaster Since 2010 Earthquake

Fierce forest fires in Central Chile have claimed the lives of 112 people, with hundreds still missing

chile forest fire

04 Feb 2024

Massive Wildfires In Chile Kills 51, Toll Expected to Climb

Wildfires are not uncommon in Chile over summer months. Last year, on the back of a record heat wave, some 27 people died and more than 990,000 acres were affected.

greece forest fire

19 Jul 2023

Greece Forests catches fire

Greece Forest Fire: The forests of Greece are turning into shoals. The fire has increased so much that it is now spreading in residential areas. Know what is the current situation in this report.

Uttarakhand fire

26 Apr 2022

Fire breaks out in forests of Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh, Tehri Garhwal

Because of a lack of resources, the fire cannot be contained, and local residents claim that the government is unaware of the raging inferno in Tehri, reported by news agency ANI.

26 Apr 2022

Fueled by high winds, US witnesses one of largest wildfires

The National Interagency Fire Centre reports that 3,496 square kilometres of land have been burned this year, outpacing the 10-year average by 30%.

25 Apr 2022

New Mexico declares emergency in wake of multiple wildfires

Twenty wildfires continue to rage across New Mexico, as Governor Lujan Grisham declares an emergency In northern New Mexico, a wind-driven wildfire that started on April 17 scorched 209 square kilometres of land A wildfire in Flagstaff, Arizona, has prompted the evacuation of several people

16 Apr 2022

Massive fire breaks out in Jharkhand's Bigha forest, 4 injured

The flames turned severe around 9 am A team of forest personnel was working on dousing the flames Four members of the team were injured during the operations

01 Oct 2021

Forest fire destroyed 12 houses and 100 hectares in Chile

Chilean authorities have declared a red alert in the Tiltil commune in the Santiago Metropolitan Region and evacuated residents due to a forest fire that started on Wednesday.

03 Jun 2019

Forest fire continue to blaze in Tehri district

The fire continues to rage and spread in forests of Uttarakhand with multiple fires reported from the Tehri forest area. Watch this video to know more.

21 Jun 2017

Heatwave scorches Europe, from London to Siberia

Europe sizzled under a continent-wide heatwave on Wednesday, with London bracing for Britain`s hottest June day since 1976 as Portugal struggled to stamp out deadly forest fires.

03 Jun 2016

Canada fires spew dust all the way to Switzerland

The wildfires, which forced the evacuation on May 3 of about 100,000 residents of Fort McMurray and surrounding areas in Alberta province, remains out of control.

08 May 2016

Canada fires now advancing more slowly

Authorities had expressed fear the fire could spread east to Saskatchewan province. But Notley said the worst fears from Saturday had not been realised, at least not yet.

Uttarakhand forest fires

02 May 2016

Uttarakhand forest fires show signs of abating

Forest fires raging through large parts of Uttarakhand began showing signs of abating as two IAF choppers and over 10,000 personnel continued firefighting operations for the second day on Monday.

02 May 2016

NDRF says ‘fire out in 70% of affected areas’, Centre sends team to probe Uttarakhand forest fires

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) confirmed that of the 427 locations, fire in 70 percent of the areas were out.

01 May 2016

IAF choppers dump water to douse forest fires; Centre sends probe team to Uttarakhand

Three Mi 17 choppers of the IAF on Sunday dumped loads of water on forest fires raging for days in Nainital and Pauri districts in Uttarakhand.

01 May 2016

Uttarakhand forest fires: Things as they happened on Sunday

Raging forest fires have destroyed vast swathes of forested land across Uttarakhand.

01 May 2016

After Uttarakhand, now Himachal faces the brunt of forest fires, 50 ha of woodland destroyed

Majority of fire incidents are reported from the pine forests during summers every year when pine trees shed their dry needles, which are highly inflammable, the report added.

30 Apr 2016

Uttarakhand forest fire LIVE: 1500 villages under threat, govt issues alert

Over 1500 villages on Sunday were under threat from the raging forest fires in Uttarakhand, prompting the centre to deploy three teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to bring the inferno under control.

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