Wildfires threaten Greece’s UNESCO world heritage monastery
ATHENS: A wildfire in the Viotia region of Greece, about 100 kilometres northwest of Athens, caused damage to a UNESCO World Heritage site on Wednesday, Xinhua quoted the Greek national news agency AMNA report. The 10th-century Hosios Loukas monastery is listed among the country’s most important monuments of Byzantine-era architecture. One of the oldest buildings […]
California wildfire prompts evacuations, road closures
SAN FRANCISCO: A wildfire in Siskiyou County, US Northern California, prompted evacuations and road closures, officials said on Wednesday. Officials with the US Forest Services estimated the size of the blaze, known as the Head Fire, to be around 2,700 acres (about 11 square kilometres) as of Wednesday, reported Xinhua. The fire exploded Tuesday night […]
Wildfires force evacuation of 600 in Italy’s Sardinia
ROME: Six hundred people have been evacuated from Italy’s second-largest island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea because of wildfires that engulfed the northeastern and southern parts of the island on Sunday, Sputnik quoted local media Il Fatto Quotidiano reports. Residents of the city of Posada on the east coast of the island, as well […]
Wildfire in Spain’s La Palma Island forces thousands of people to evacuate
MADRID: A wildfire on the Spanish island of La Palma has blazed around 4,500 hectares of land, causing thousands of people to evacuate, local emergency services said on Saturday. The fire, which broke out early morning on Saturday, has burnt the area close to the municipality of Puntagorda on the north-west region of the Canary […]
Wildfires stretching across Spain as heatwave continues
MADRID: Wildfires have so far burnt more than 22,000 hectares of woodland and scrub in Spain since the start of the heatwave over a week ago, emergency services calculated. Temperatures above 44°C in southern and southwestern Spain and around 40°C for the rest of the country, coming on the back of exceptionally hot and dry […]
Our burning Earth verges on Dantean existence
AS a precursor to the ominous times to come, Bloomberg News, filed a report last July 14 entitled ‘China’s Heatwave Turns Deadly as Industrial Power Cuts Begin’. The headline gave me an idea to write about. Things are heating up around us, metaphorically and physically and the news report was the catalyst I needed to […]
Firemen help put out wildfire
MIRI: Seven firemen from Miri Central fire station were deployed to help battle wildfire at Jalan Marina Bay on Sunday afternoon (May 2). Zone six fire chief Supt Law Poh Kiong said the wildfire burned five acres of land near the newly opened Miri Fish Market and Pullman Hotel Miri. He added the firemen were […]
