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More than 100 wildfires stretched thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal on Wednesday, with seven deaths since the worst spate of fires in recent years spread out of control over the weekend. CBC | World News
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Skies rain ash and embers as ‘hellish’ wildfires tear through Southern California
Three major wildfires are burning in Southern California and endangering tens of thousands of homes and other structures. A man has been arrested and charged with arson in one of them. CBC | World News
Read More »Panic in Greece as raging wildfires erupt and thousands evacuated under 38C smoke plume
A village and a town in Greece have so far been evacuated, with several regions on high alert for more wildfires. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »‘We are losing the Amazon rainforest’: Record number of wildfires in parts of Brazil
Wildfires in the normally humid, tropical Amazon rainforest have been supercharged by a disastrous combination of elevated temperatures, historic drought and deforestation. In Roraima State, in northern Brazil, the number of fires in February were more than five times the average. CBC | World News
Read More »IN PHOTOS | Scenes of spreading Texas wildfires
A cluster of wildfires is scorching the Texas Panhandle, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history. CBC | World News
Read More »Wildfires scorch Texas Panhandle, prompt shutdown of nuclear weapons facility
Rapidly moving Texas wildfires prompted evacuation orders in small towns, on Tuesday, and shut down a nuclear facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fuelled the blaze in the state’s rural Panhandle. CBC | World News
Read More »Search for hundreds of missing people underway in Chile after wildfires ravage neighbourhoods
Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighbourhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 122. Hundreds of people remain missing. CBC | World News
Read More »Chile wildfires death toll likely to rise ‘significantly,’ president says
At least 64 people have died from forest fires raging in Chile — an increase of 13 in the past day, President Gabriel Boric said on Sunday, adding that the death toll is likely to increase further. CBC | World News
Read More »Massive rainfall amounts could soon extinguish many of Australia’s wildfires
Torrential rain across Australia’s east could extinguish all remaining bushfires in the New South Wales by the end of the week, authorities said on Tuesday, though in Victoria officials expect it to dampen, rather than extinguish, many of the 20 existing fires there. CBC | World News
Read More »Bittersweet reprieve as heavy rain, floods douse Australian wildfires
Many Australians were experiencing a bittersweet break from the threat of bushfires on Thursday, with heavy rain deluging many areas and a tropical cyclone forecast to hit the country’s northwest over the weekend. CBC | World News
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