Fire

A hypnotic animation produced by Copernicus' European Atmospheric Monitoring Service shows how Australian fires have generated so much smoke that it has gone around the world, back to Australia

Sydney's iconic opera house was illuminated in tribute to those battling wildfires as the blazes claimed the life of a professional firefighter

A funeral service was held on Tuesday in Sydney for a volunteer firefighter who died battling blazes in Australia.

Catastrophic bushfires have turned swathes of land into smouldering, blackened landscapes and destroyed an area about the size of the island of Ireland, according to official figures, with authorities warning the disaster still has weeks or months to run.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said 23 people have now died in the wildfires so far this summer.

Firefighters were battling a bushfire in suburban Melbourne on Monday amid emergency warnings across the state of Victoria.

Helicopters battle raging bushfires in Australia

Firefighters urged residents to evacuate areas near Gospers Mountain as a bushfire that has razed almost 400,000 hectares approached residential areas

A three-year drought has left much of the vast country tinder dry and in some areas, fire chiefs say they won't be able to put fires out without rain.

Protesters burned tyres and blocked some roads on November 24 in the southern city of Basra, preventing government employees from reaching offices

The fire department said no one had been injured and that all guests and employees had been counted.

A water-bombing helicopter crashed in Australia as it was being used to battle a forest fire west of Brisbane.

As many as 350 out of 600 animals on the reserve in New South Wales have been killed.

A massive fire broke out at a shopping complex in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Tuesday The blaze engulfed the top section of a building in the popular Balogun Market

The fire broke out when a gas stove exploded as breakfast was being prepared on board. Safety regulations are often ignored in the overcrowded trains.

Officials say the fire broke out Thursday when some passengers were preparing breakfast on the speeding train in violation of rules.

Firefighters in northern California are attacking a massive wildfire burning in Sonoma County's wine country ahead of another major wind event forecast for Tuesday night.