India Police arrest company owners after building fire kills 27 in New Delhi At least 12 people were injured and 50 rescued from the four-storey commercial building, which contains mainly shops, fire authorities said. 14/05/2022
no comment Seagull 'ziplined' to safety after getting hooked on a wire A gull caught upside-down on a utility wire was rescued by a creative fire crew in Sunderland, England. 06/05/2022
no comment Turkey: a city bus burns in the city of Izmir On Thursday, a city bus driving in the north of Izmir caught on fire on Caher Dudayev Boulevard. After noticing the smoke, the bus driver pulled the vehicle to the side of the road and evacuated the passengers. 28/04/2022
no comment Aftermath of Brovary bombing Villages near Brovary sustained heavy damage as the Russians tried to advance on Kyiv. 30/03/2022
Greece Three workers dead after explosion at Greek dynamite factory Residents in Greneva could hear the explosion over 20 kilometres away, the local governor said. 21/03/2022
Global Japan How the Kobe earthquake could change the way we fight wildfires Global Japan looks at how a new eco-friendly fire-fighting foam, could be a global game-changer. 01/03/2022
Green News Wildfires getting worse globally and governments unprepared, says UN U.N. researchers said many nations continue to spend too much time and money fighting fires and not enough trying to prevent them. 23/02/2022
no comment Fire at Tehran's Grand Bazaar damages shops Firefighters say they have put out a fire that broke out in Tehran's grand bazaar in the morning on Saturday. 12/02/2022
Spain Eight elderly residents die in nursing home fire in eastern Spain Officials say the fire broke out at a bedroom at the nursing home on Tuesday evening. 19/01/2022
no comment Tokyo firemen perform traditional firefighting acrobatics at New Year drills Members of the Edo Firemen Preservation Association perform Japanese traditional firefighting techniques during the New Year's fire brigades exercise. 06/01/2022
no comment South Africa Parliament fire reignites South Africa's National Assembly building in Cape Town reignited on Monday, after a major fire the day before gutted the 138-year-old parliament complex. 03/01/2022
no comment Fire burns Parliament building in Cape Town A major fire that erupted Sunday at South Africa's national Parliament complex in Cape Town has spread to the National Assembly 02/01/2022
no comment Shoppers rush to evacuate store as wildfire nears Thursday's wildfires and high winds in Colorado came as a surprise to many residents 01/01/2022
Argentina Argentina's Bariloche sends plume of smoke into the sky as fires rage Some of the fires are as much as 300 kilometres apart. No casualties have been reported so far. 27/12/2021
United Kingdom Woman arrested after four children die in London house fire About 60 firefighters were deployed to tackle the "intense blaze" in south London on Thursday evening. The cause of the fire is under investigation. 17/12/2021
United Kingdom London house fire kills four, including two children Investigators are searching for the origins of a house fire in the Bexleyheath area of southeast London that killed two women and two children on Thursday evening. 19/11/2021
Greece Greek firefighters clash with police at climate ministry Greece has more than 15,000 firefighters during the summer months, about 5,000 of them on short-term contracts or hired seasonally. 05/11/2021
Nature Meet the couple dedicating their marriage to fighting wildfires Mark is a smokejumper, Samsara is a fire lookout. They met ten years ago while working to stop wildfires in the US. 27/10/2021
Taiwan Dozens killed as fire rips through building in Taiwan The blaze started about 3 am local time and continued for hours overnight before rescue workers brought it under control. 14/10/2021
Greece Firefighters contain wildfire that threatened resort town near Athens Local officials said a few houses on the outskirts of Nea Makri - around 38 kilometres northeast of the capital - had suffered fire damage, but no injuries were reported. 21/09/2021
no comment California firefighters scramble to protect sequoia groves Flames on Sunday reached a grove of sequoia trees in the US state of California as firefighters battled to keep fire from driving further into another grove, where the base of the world’s largest tree has been wrapped in protective foil 20/09/2021
Italy Milan building fire 'reminiscent' of Grenfell disaster, officials say Italian firefighters said they were continuing to search a 20-story apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire, but said that there was no indication that anyone was missing inside. 30/08/2021
France European court dismisses complaint against mandatory vaccination More than 670 professional and volunteer firefighters in France had complained that compulsory vaccines violated their rights. 25/08/2021
no comment Russia: Firefighters trapped in fire manage to escape from forest. Employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry got surrounded by flames in the middle of the forest on the border with the Nizhny Novgorod region. 25/08/2021
Living Worried about wildfires? Here's how you can help prevent them With wildfires raging in Greece, Turkey, California, Spain and more, we take a closer look at what you can do to help. 22/08/2021
USA Dozens of California fires threaten thousands of homes and whole towns Around 21,000 federal firefighters - more than double the number of firefighters sent to contain forest fires at this time a year ago - are at work. 14/08/2021
