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Greece, France, Italy and Croatia among countries scorched by deadly blaze
The summer wildfires have struck countries across the region, prompting the European Union to expand its support, sending two Spanish firefighting planes to Tunisia after wildfires in neighboring ...
The 2023 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. Below is an ongoing list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2023. Africa
On 9 August, a wildfire broke out in a previously unaffected area on the Italy–Slovenia border, burning in a shrubland in the hills near Socerb in the municipality of Koper, further south from the areas affected by the July wildfires in the Karst region. After the blaze was noticed during the night, approximately 80 firefighters and two ...
[19] 43,000 hectares of land were affected. [20] As a result of the fires, a total of 131 people were killed, [17] and at least 14,000 houses were affected by the fires in Viña del Mar and Quilpué. [21] The fires were regarded as the deadliest in Chile's history, and the deadliest disaster in the country since the 2010 Chile earthquake. [18]
Fires could be seen raging near houses on Greek TV. Some yards were burning. Not all residents have left affected areas, instead staying behind in an effort to save their homes.
About 30 miles inland, the Eaton Fire prompted authorities to warn of "an immediate threat to life" in Altadena, near Pasadena. And the Hurst Fire, in the San Fernando Valley northwest of downtown ...
The 2024 Portugal wildfires were a series of more than 1,000 wildfires, [2] at least 128 labeled as devastating, that spread through central and northern Portugal between 15 and 20 September 2024, [1] although the fires were controlled by 20 September, authorities and firefighters remained on the ground in order to be vigilant for several more days, burning more than 135,000 hectares of land ...