Wild Fires

‘Where are we going to go?’ Residents flee as fires reach Athens suburbs

ATHENS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Yorgos Papaioannou spent four hours using a garden hose to try to save his newly-built home from a blazing wildfire, until police patrolling his suburb…

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Fires engulf residential area near Pescara’s coast in Italy

A large-scale fire broke out in the early afternoon in Pescara, in the south of the city, between the Vallelunga ditch, via Scarfoglio and via Terra Vergine. The flames, fueled…

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Largest wildfires ever recorded in California threaten urban areas and incinerate neighbourhoods

The Press Democrat reports that the largest wildfire ever recorded in California needed just 11 days to blacken an area nearly the size of Los Angeles — and it's only one…

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It’s not just Greece as England, Sardinia, USA and Sweden amongst other are hit by heatwaves, thunder and fires.

An orange alert has been issued in Sardinia due to an outbreak of wildfires across half of the island, with Greece and Sweden already battling devastating fires. Friday parts of…

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Death toll reaches 87 and pressures for resignations in the aftermath of the Greek wildfires

EKathimerini/BBC/GreekReporter : A 62-year-old man died at an Athens hospital on Friday as a result of extensive burn injuries, raising the toll from Monday’s deadly east Attica wildfires to 87.…

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