Fires

The fires have been unprecedented.

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Wildfires ravaging Australia have taken a grisly toll on the country's wildlife with hundreds of millions of wild animals believed to have been killed in the blazes, along with thousands of livestock.

Grisly images from New South Wales show the remains of animals at the roadside in Batlow where a man also died defending his property from the out of control bushfires.

Thousands of tourists fled Australia's wildfire-ravaged eastern coast Thursday ahead of worsening conditions

The authorities expect conditions to worsen on Friday and Saturday.

The footage was recorded as the flames moved in on the Australian firefighters.

A giant wall of smoke and flames hovers over the Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne, as Australia endures one of the worst days of its months-long bushfire crisis.

Heat-related illnesses are depleting crews across southern Australia.

Cudlee Creek: Koala gets a refreshing drink of water as wildfires rage

New South Wales is in the middle of a seven-day state of emergency as the fires, encouraged by a ferocious heatwave, rage out of control.

Around 2,000 firefighters are battling the fires, half of which remain uncontrolled, in Australia's most populous state with temperatures reaching 39C in central Sydney

The warning comes after two states were ravaged by dozens of out of control wildfires this past weekend.

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

It broke out in Ventura County.

Forest fires struck in more European countries than ever before. Last year, wildfires destroyed nearly 178,000 hectares of land across the continent. That’s according to a new report by the EU Commission, which says it’s having to spend more to protect our countryside.

Emergency services are on high alert and energy companies are planning wide-scale power outages to miminise the risk of sparking more fires.

Wildfires are still raging in the Amazon rainforest. 12 million hectares have burnt so far, three times more than last year. In Bolivia, over 5,000 people are fighting the blaze, but it is still out of control. Euronews Aid Zone reporter Monica Pinna recently returned from the affected area.

A large fire broke out in the early hours of Thursday at a French factory in the northern port city of Rouen, local authorities said.

Indonesia and neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia are regularly hit by smoky haze from slash-and-burn clearances of forests for timber and palm oil plantations.

52 fire engines and crews, 171 firefighters in total, as well as nine groups of firemen on foot, two firefighting helicopters and four water-dropping helicopters assisted by 13 water-tanker trucks and digging machinery are battling the blaze.