CDE News - The Dispatch

Risk of new wildfires in southwestern France as heatwave persists

SAINT-MAGNE, France, Aug 11 (Reuters) - High temperatures and a worsening drought brought a high risk of new fires breaking out in southwestern France, officials said on Friday, even after…

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Wildfires burn, farmers struggle as another heatwave bakes western Europe

HOSTENS, France, (Reuters) - European nations sent firefighting teams to help France tackle a "monster" wildfire, while forest blazes also raged in Spain and Portugal. More than 1,000 firefighters, backed…

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UPDATED: France battles ‘monster’ wildfire as heatwaves scorch Europe

HOSTENS, France, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A "monster" wildfire raged for a third day near France's wine-growing heartland of Bordeaux on Thursday, with no let-up in blistering temperatures likely before…

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Wildfires rage in southwestern France amid new heatwave

PARIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Wildfires raged in southwestern France, destroying sixteen houses, burning 6,000 hectares and forcing the evacuation of almost 6,000 people in an area already hit last…

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Factbox: Wildfires breaking out across the world

(Reuters) - Extreme fires have swallowed up huge swathes of land, destroyed homes and threatened livelihoods across the world in the first half of 2022. Below is a list of…

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Wildfires in Europe burn second-biggest area on record

Wildfires raging through Europe this summer have burned the second-largest area on record, even though the region is only halfway through its typical fire season, according to data from the…

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Europe’s heatwave reaches Poland, Greece as it moves eastwards, brings wildfires

ATHENS/MILAN, (Reuters) - The vast heatwave covering swathes of Europe moved steadily eastwards, forcing countries including Italy, Poland and Slovenia to issue their highest heatwave alerts as firefighters battled wildfires…

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UPDATED: France, Spain, Portugal battle wildfires amid intense heat

LISBON, July 17 (Reuters) - Authorities across southern Europe battled on Sunday to control huge wildfires in countries including Spain, Greece and France, where thousands of people have been evacuated in soaring…

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Wildfire in southern Spain stabilised, people allowed back home

BENAHAVIS, Spain, June 10 (Reuters) - Firefighters managed to stabilise a wildfire that ravaged 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) of woods and bushes in southern Spain, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Felix Bolanos…

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From Siberia to the U.S, wildfires broke emissions records this year

Wildfires produced a record amount of carbon emissions in parts of Siberia, the United States and Turkey this year, as climate change fanned unusually intense blazes, the European Union's Copernicus…

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Planes, fire crews tackling wildfire near Reagan ranch in California

California firefighters took advantage of a break in strong winds to get aircraft aloft and dump retardant on a fast-moving wildfire that was within a half mile of former President…

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Warning for increased risk of fire danger issued for Northern California counties

A "Red Flag Warning" was issued for several Northern California counties, implying an increased risk of fire danger, the U.S. National Weather Service said. A Red Flag Warning means that…

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Wildfire raging in Spain forces more than 900 to flee, a firefighter dies

A wildfire has forced the evacuation of more than 900 people from around the southern Spanish resort of Estepona, local authorities said. A 44-year-old firefighter died while working on the…

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Biden declares emergency in California over Caldor fire

U.S. President Joe Biden declared an emergency in California and ordered federal assistance to boost local responders' efforts to battle the Caldor fire, the White House said. The fire has…

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Wildfire menaces California’s Lake Tahoe area after chasing away thousands

Firefighters waged an all-out battle in heavy winds to protect homes on the fringe of tinder-dry forests near Lake Tahoe from a wildfire that has chased thousands of people from…

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Dry, heavy winds stoke growing California wildfires

An incendiary mix of strong, shifting winds and drought-parched vegetation stoked two of California's largest wildfires on Wednesday, with thousands of people chased from their foothill and forest homes in…

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Wildfires outside Jerusalem contained

Wildfires in wooded hills near Jerusalem were contained, the Israeli fire brigade said, after crews waged a three-day battle joined by Palestinian firefighters and the Israeli Air Force. No serious…

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California wildfire crisis escalates amid extreme winds

California's wildfire crisis escalated as resurgent strong winds fanned the state's biggest conflagration, drove flames from a separate, smaller blaze into a rural mountain community and prompted widespread precautionary power…

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UPDATED: One person found dead in French wildfire near Saint Tropez

One person has been found dead as French firefighters battled throug the night to contain a wildfire in the hills behind the coastal resort of Saint-Tropez, the regional government said…

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Wildfires burn outside Athens, villages evacuated

Strong winds fanned two wildfires outside Athens on Monday, threatening homes and forcing the evacuation of villages. More than 500 wildfires have broken out in recent weeks across Greece, which,…

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Wildfire in Jerusalem hills sends smoke clouds over city

Wildfires in wooded hills outside Jerusalem sent smoke clouds billowing over the city on Sunday as planes and crews on the ground fought flames that forced the evacuation of several…

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Spain continues to tackle wildfires

At least 800 people were evacuated in Spain as forest fires blazed Sunday in two regions, with extremely dry conditions worsening the risk of more wildfires during the hottest weekend…

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Wildfires continue to ravage the American West

The U.S. Forest Service said it's operating in crisis mode, fully deploying firefighters and maxing out its support system as wildfires continue to break out across the U.S. West, threatening…

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North Africa Fires Spread to Libya and Tunisia

As unusually hot weather persists over parts of Northern Africa, new forest fires reportedly have broken out in Tunisia and Libya during the past 24 hours, in addition to many…

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Wildfire breaks out east of Rome, locals evacuated

Locals were evacuated from small communities around 40 km (25 miles) east of Rome on Friday when a wildfire broke out as the Italian capital faced temperatures of around 37…

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Italian wildfires rage on after 49 degree heat record

Fires stoked by hot winds swept through southern Italy on Thursday, a day after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius (119.84°F) which some scientists believe could…

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California wildfire wreaks more destruction as temperatures rise

An enormous wildfire raging across Northern California for nearly a month has burned down another 550 homes, fire officials said, becoming one of the most destructive in state history. The…

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Greek villagers mount vigil to save homes as wildfires burn for eighth day

Residents mounted a round-the-clock watch on Tuesday to try to save their homes from wildfires ravaging the Greek island of Evia as the government defended its handling of the crisis. Greek fire crews,…

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Greek PM approves 500 million euro budget for wildfire relief, reforestation

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday he had approved a supplemental budget of 500 million euros ($587 million) to fund relief and compensation for people who have lost…

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Blaze ravages Greek island of Evia, Firefighting plane crashes in Zakynthos

Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday, and ferries were on standby for more…

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#HelpTurkey under investigation for ‘spreading fear’ about wildfires

Prosecutors in Turkey have launched an investigation into a social media hastag critical of the government’s allegedly bungled response to the country’s devastating wildfires, accusing it of spreading “anxiety and…

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Blaze ravages Evia island on sixth day of Greek wildfires

housands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday, and ferries were on standby for more…

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Eight missing as massive Dixie fire rages in northern California

At least eight people were missing as one of the worst wildfires in the nation scorched through Northern California communities, forest and tinder dry scrub in the Sierra Nevada mountains,…

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Thousands flee Greece blazes as wildfires sweep through Mediterranean

Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens on Friday and hundreds were evacuated by boat from the nearby island of Evia as Greece faced a fourth…

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Turkey spent only fraction of forest protection budget before wildfires erupted

Turkish authorities battling the country's worst ever wildfires have been accused of failing to prepare for the threat after official data showed they spent only a fraction of the modest…

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Hundreds evacuated by sea from island as Greek wildfires rage

Hundreds of people were evacuated by boat from an island near Athens as Greece braced for a fourth day of wildfires on Friday with emergency services forecasting strong winds and…

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Vast wildfires in Russia’s Yakutia set emissions record – monitor

Summer wildfires have already produced a record amount of carbon emissions in Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia, with still more weeks of the fire season to come, according to the…

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Greece battles wildfires for third day, site of ancient Olympics saved

Greek authorities ordered more evacuations on an island near Athens on Thursday and battled a blaze near the site of the ancient Olympic Games in the western Peloponnese as wildfires…

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Turkish fires sweeping through tourist areas are the hottest on record

The heat intensity of wildfires in Turkey on Thursday was four times higher than anything on record for the nation, according to satellite data passed on to the Guardian. At…

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UPDATED: Firemen fight wildfires in Sicilian town of Catania

Firemen in Italy said on Saturday they were battling for a second straight day wildfires in Sicily that reached the town of Catania, forcing people to leave their homes and…

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Greece issues wildfires warning over ‘dangerous’ heatwave

Greek authorities warned the public against unnecessary work and travel on Friday as temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 °F) in Athens and the ancient Acropolis, its most visited monument,…

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Evacuations ordered after two California wildfires converge into one

Crews and officials battling a large fire that has incinerated more than 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) in northern California braced for the possibility on Sunday that smoke columns could spawn…

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Australia forecasts prolonged wildfire seasons, more droughts from climate change

Australia’s climate will continue to warm, resulting in prolonged wildfire seasons and less rain in the southeast and southwest that will lead to more frequent droughts, the country’s weather bureau…

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Record California wildfires burn over 4 million acres

Wildfires in California have burned more than 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) in 2020, over twice the previous record for any year and an area larger than Connecticut, the…

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California wine country wildfire forces evacuation of hospital, hundreds of homes

A wind-driven wildfire erupted on Sunday in the heart of northern California's Napa Valley wine country to spread across nearly 2,000 acres (809 hectares), forcing the evacuation of a hospital…

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Photo Story: Northern California under extreme fire alert

Trees on fire as the Glass Fire rages along the famous Silverado Trail road in the town of Deer Park in Napa County, California, USA, 27 September 2020. Northern California…

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Smoke from US wildfires reaches Europe

Smoke from the fires devastating swathes of the U.S. West Coast has reached as far as Europe, the European Union's climate monitoring service revealed in its assessment of the "unprecedented"…

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Photo Story: Forest fires in Galicia, Spain

Firefighters try to extinguish one of the forest fires that originated in Cualedro, Ourense, northern Spain. Over 2,250 hectares have been burnt with more than eleven forest fires in three…

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Search for the dead and survivors continue as wildfires rage on in U.S.

Crews were to resume searching for the dead on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western U.S. states, where millions of acres have burned in…

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Oregon’s wildfires force mass evacuations, but shifting weather offers some hope

Deadly wildfires raging across Oregon kept half a million people under evacuation alert on Friday even as weary firefighters took advantage of improved weather to go on the offensive against…

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Half a million people flee dozens of wildfires in the U.S.

Dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires burned through forests and towns in U.S. West Coast states on Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes, killing at least nine people and forcing hundreds of…

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Wildfires destroy five towns in the U.S

An unprecedented spate of fierce, wind-driven wildfires in Oregon have all but destroyed five small towns, leaving a potentially high death toll in their wake, the governor said on Wednesday,…

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Residential areas evacuated as Greek wildfire rages near Athens

A wildfire fanned by strong winds forced the evacuation of a boarding school and six residential areas southeast of Athens, Greece’s fire brigade said. The settlement of Feriza and five…

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Photo Story: Forest fire in Oliveira de Frades, Portugal

A child inside a car near a forest fire in Oliveira de Frades, northern Portugal. This forest fire mobilized 327 firemen, 103 land vehicles and 8 airplanes. People watch a…

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State of emergency declared in California due to fires

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five counties on Sunday due to wildfires. The counties included Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino and San Diego, the governor's…

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Brazil fires threaten world’s largest wetland

Flames are ravaging Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, approaching the region’s main highway and threatening endangered species amid a near-record number of fires. Brazil’s national space research agency Inpe…

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Photo Story: Wildfires north of Los Angeles

The Lake Fire burns a hillside as a helicopter drops water in Lake Hughes, California, USA, 12 August 2020. According to the latest media report the fire burnt 10,000 acres.…

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