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The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast rose to eight on Sunday as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in coastal resort towns. Two more people died on Sunday due to wildfires in the …
The houses damaged during the wildfires in southern Turkey will be rebuilt within a year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised. "All regions where forest fires are raging have been declared natural disaster zones. Material …
Personnel of 500 people of the Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES), as well as helicopters, the necessary equipment and accessories for extinguishing the ongoing wildfires, will be sent to fraternal Turkey in the shortest …
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev expressed condolences to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 30 over deadly wildfires across Turkey's various regions, AzerTAc reported. “On my own behalf and on behalf …
Russia’s Beriev Be-200 aircraft, designed for firefighting, for the second day have been engaged in efforts to combat a major forest fire in Turkey’s Antalya province. "Three Russian Be-200 firefighting aircraft …
Three people were reported dead Thursday and more than 100 injured as thousands of firefighters battled huge blazes spreading across the Mediterranean resort regions of Turkey's southern coast, France 24 reports. Officials …
Authorities in the Turkish resort city of Marmaris are evacuating local residents and tourists from hotels in connection with a wildfire, the broadcaster NTV reported on Thursday. The broadcaster's footage shows the forest burning …
Hectares of forestland were damaged which broke out in four separate locations on July 28 in Antalya’s Manavgat district. Many forest workers and firefighters are battling to contain the flames. According …
At least 58 people were killed by a fire at an Iraqi coronavirus hospital on Monday, a health official said. The fire raged through late Monday at al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriya, about 200 miles south of Baghdad. Crowds …
Fire has broken out on the Gazakh direction of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan. As reported, on July 6, the ministry's hotline short number 112 received …
A joint Israeli Air Force and Fire and Rescue Services delegation has been sent to fight the huge forest fire in Cyprus, the IDF confirmed on Sunday. The delegation will include a number of Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircrafts, as well as …
A forest fire that broke out in Turkey's southwestern Muğla province on June 27 has been brought under control, a local official said. "The fire is now under control. Teams continue cooling work from air and …
A large fire occurred today on the territory of the Yerevan Thermal Power Plant, the corresponding message was published on the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia. The call was received today at 16.15 (15.15 …
Authorities are allowing a massive chemical plant fire in Rockton, Illinois, burn itself out, which could take several days, rather than risk chemical runoff spilling into the nearby Rock River. Fire department officials said the air …
Lives of the patients, hospitalized after the explosion and fire at a gas station in Novosibirsk are not in danger, Novosibirsk regional clinical hospital chief medical officer Anatoly Yudanov said. "The kids are in relatively …
A blaze broke out at a steel factory in Iran’s southern Kerman province Sunday morning, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the country’s fifth reported infrastructure fire in little more than two weeks. A video of …
A huge fire broke out at an oil refinery in the southern part of the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian state media reported, saying there were so far no reports of casualties. Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said …
Iran's largest navy ship the Kharg sank on Wednesday after catching fire in the Gulf of Oman, but the crew were safely rescued, Iranian media reported. No further explanation was given for the latest incident in a region of …
Firefighters have been working to put out fires across Israel on Monday. Many of the fires are being contained but according to the spokespersons of the Israeli Fire and Rescue Services, most of the fires are ongoing and have not been …
A fire that broke out at a furniture workshop in Temka district in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi has been extinguished. The Emergency Management Service has reported that the fire broke out in a one-storey building …
