FIRESTORM

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Blaze-hit Athens suburb trains to tackle new fire season
May 23, 2025 (AFP)
Suddenly, a plume of smoke rose from the pine forest -- a flare held aloft by a firefighter. Within moments, sirens broke the morning silence. A dozen firefight...
'Red alert': Fires drive tropical forest loss to record high
May 21, 2025 (AFP)
Tally it all up and the world lost 67,000 square kilometres (25,900 square miles) of precious primary tropical forest, an area double the size of Belgium or Tai...
OroraTech Secures euro 37M in Series B Funding from Major European Banks
May 19, 2025 (SPX)
With a fleet of ten satellites already operational, OroraTech provides the most continuous and extensive thermal data stream available, empowering the creation ...
Big Canada wildfire kills two, 1,000 evacuated
May 14, 2025 (AFP)
Canada has endured a series of significant forest fires in recent years, but deaths involving residents are rare. In 2023, the worst wildfire season in the coun...
Climate change made fire conditions twice as likely in South Korea blazes: study
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
Vast swaths of the country's southeast were burned in a series of blazes in March, which killed 31 people and destroyed historic sites, including a some thousan...
Teen charged as New Jersey blaze scorches 15,000 acres
Apr 24, 2025 (AFP)
The fires spreading in Ocean County, the coastal region of New Jersey, south of New York, are only half contained, according to the latest update from firefight...
Thousands evacuate as fire spreads in US state of New Jersey
Apr 23, 2025 (AFP)
As of 10:30 pm (0230 GMT) the Jones Road Wildfire was raging across Ocean County and was 10 percent contained, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said in a post...
UK wildfires push records in first four months of 2025
Apr 14, 2025 (AFP)
At least 111 fires have torched an area of nearly 24,500 hectares (94 square miles) across the country since January 1, according to data Monday from the Europe...
Nepal fights wildfires and pollution amidst drier winter
Apr 09, 2025 (AFP)
Nepal has seen a significant drop in post-monsoon rainfall, with 79.4 percent less precipitation between December and February compared to the average, the Depa...
Fire in northern China nursing home kills 20: state media
Apr 09, 2025 (AFP)
The fire broke out around 9:00 pm (1300 GMT) Tuesday at the nursing home in Longhua County, roughly 180 kilometres (112 miles) northeast of the capital Beijing....
Nepal capital chokes as wildfires rage
Apr 03, 2025 (AFP)
Experts say that widespread wildfires, fuelled by an exceptionally dry winter and stagnant atmospheric conditions, have caused the thick and throat-burning smog...
South Korea's 'heartbreaking' wildfires expose super-aged society
Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)
Kim built her house in Chumok-ri village herself when she first moved there from the city but, like most houses in the area, it was totally destroyed by the bla...
Rain offers respite to South Korea firefighters as death toll rises
Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)
More than a dozen fires have ravaged large areas of the country's southeast, destroying an ancient temple, and forcing around 37,000 people to evacuate. The wil...
Fire fighting helicopter tackles Thailand blazes
Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)
Chutaphorn Phuangchingngam, the only female captain in Thailand's national disaster prevention team, draws on two decades of flying to steer the Russian-made ch...
'Like the apocalypse': S. Korea wildfires tear through mountains. Death toll mounts
Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)
"It was like the apocalypse," the 39-year-old said, as he recalled seeing the fire tear through the area, which, even before the inferno struck, had been suffer...
South Korea struggles to contain deadly wildfires
Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)
More than a dozen different blazes broke out over the weekend, with the safety minister reporting thousands of hectares burned and four people killed. "The wild...
S. Korea authorities deploy choppers, troops to battle wildfire
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
Four people have been killed so far, with officials warning that high winds and rising temperatures were hindering efforts to put out the blazes. In Uiseong, ne...
Dozens of fires rage in southern Chile
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
"We are facing a very complex situation and all material resources as well as all brigades have been mobilized to combat these fires," Interior Minister Alvaro ...
Four killed in S. Korea wildfire, hundreds told to evacuate
Mar 22, 2025 (AFP)
The fire, which began in Sancheong county on Friday afternoon, prompted the deployment of 304 personnel, along with 20 helicopters, according to South Korea's I...
FireSat Prototype Launch Advances Global Wildfire Surveillance
Mar 18, 2025 (SPX)
FireSat lifted off on March 14 aboard SpaceX's Transporter-13 rideshare mission. This prototype spacecraft is the first in a planned constellation designed spec...
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