JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia sent airplanes and hundreds of firefighters on Sunday to fight a blaze in a popular national park, one of a growing number of wildfires the country is battling during an unusually dry season. The largest fire reported this week has burned about 176 hectares...
LACANAU, France (AP) — Europe 's wildfire crisis fractured along starkly different fronts Sunday: gale-force winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris against renewed spread, and Spain...
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — An uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris threatened to surge again in southwest France on Wednesday — as three firefighters died in Greece and crews across southern Europe confronted a punishing mix of heat, drought and strong winds. The deaths on...
PARIS (AP) — A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said. Put another way, that means the inferno was no longer simply being...
WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a decade, the United States dramatically reduced its national smog levels, but since 2015 smoke from increasingly larger wildfires is reversing that clean-up trend and making the air dirtier and deadlier, a new study finds. Scientists say climate change deserves...
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) sent an S-70i Black Hawk helicopter to help contain a grass and forest fire on Homonhon Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar on Sunday, April 19. Col. Ma. Christina Basco, PAF spokesperson, said the helicopter has completed nine sorties, and for each run, it carried water...
PENCO, Chile (AP) — Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile on Sunday left at least 18 people dead, scorched thousands of acres of forest and destroyed hundreds of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heat wave. Chilean President Gabriel Boric...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dangerous, multiday heat wave descended on much of California and the U.S. Southwest, with near-record temperatures expected along with a higher risk of wildfires. Officials opened cooling centers this week in Los Angeles, where residents are warned to avoid strenuous...
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — More than 800 structures are threatened by a massive wildfire in central California that left at least three people injured as it burned through Los Padres National Forest. The Gifford Fire scorched more than 129 square miles (334 square kilometers) of coastal Santa...
Firefighters have put out a wildfire that hit Barangay Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales on Monday, March 10. CALM soothes Barangay Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales after a wildfire on Monday was put out less than 24 hours on Tuesday morning. (Diana Florendo FB) Early morning photos on Tuesday,...
A wildfire hit Barangay Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales, on Monday, March 10. A WILDFIRE is seen from Barangay Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales, on Monday night, March 10. (Kevinlhoyd Agasa FB) Netizens uploaded photos on Facebook showing the extent of the fire. A netizen, Diana...
President Marcos has offered his sympathy over the devastating wildfires in Southern California in the United States, and hoped for the recovery of affected communities. The devastation of the Palisades Fire is seen in the early morning in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Friday,...
