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On 15 August 2023, a forest fire broke out on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands of Spain. The fire, driven by the wind, heat, and low humidity levels, caused mass evacuations, widespread damage to the island's flora and fauna, [1] as well as power and water supply cuts in some of the affected municipalities.
2014 Northwest Territories fires Canada: 3,000,000 0 [13] 10 2020 California wildfires United States: 1,779,730 33 [14] 11 2010 Bolivia forest fires Bolivia: 1,500,000 0 [15] 12 2006–2007 Australian bushfire season Australia: 1,300,000 5 [16] 13 2017 British Columbia wildfires Canada: 1,148,000 0 [17] 14 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires ...
The amount of vegetation and forest burnt in the two fires now stood at under 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres). [26] Two new accommodation centres were opened in Saucats and Belin-Béliet. [28] Aerial water bombers dropped 10,000 litres (2,200 imp gal; 2,600 US gal) of fire retardant on the fire fronts to stop the progress of the fire. [26]
STORY: Footage showed UME soldiers building firewalls with a digger and using water to extinguish the fires burning vegetation on mountains in the Zaragoza province.A fire that started in Ateca in ...
Wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area continued to burn mostly out of control on Thursday, with at least five blazes engulfing more than 45 square miles.. At least 16 people have died as a ...
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
As of 7:15 p.m. PT, the fire had burned 566 acres and was at 0% containment, according to Cal Fire. The department said the blaze had a "dangerous rate'' of spread in an earlier update.
On 22 February 2024, at approximately 17:30 CET, [2] a fire broke out in a 14-storey luxury [3] [4] residential complex located in the Campanar district of Valencia, Spain. [5] The rapid spread of the fire, exacerbated by strong winds, building materials and a stack effect, led to the complete destruction of the complex's 138 apartments ...