Tag: firefighters
Thousands battle Greece fires as heatwave bakes Europe
Greece battled a dozen major wildfires on Wednesday, including one threatening its third-largest city Patras, as a heatwave…
Child dies in Italy as European heatwave sets records and sparks wildfires
A young boy died of heatstroke in Italy while wildfires threatened a UNESCO site in Spain and French…
Firefighters battle ‘fire whirls’ in northern Spain
(Corrects spelling of national park in paragraph 4 to Las Medulas)By David Latona, Susana Vera and Charlie DevereuxCUBO…
Italy’s Mount Vesuvius, a popular tourist destination, closes over wildfire
Italian firefighters and the army on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all…
‘Challenging day’ for firefighters battling huge blaze in France
Firefighters tackling a massive wildfire in southern France face a "challenging day" with officials warning on Sunday that…
Italy’s Mount Vesuvius closed to tourists as wildfire rages
Italian firefighters on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up…
Fire extinguished, historic mosque-cathedral in southern Spain ‘saved’
A fire broke out in the historic mosque-turned-cathedral in Cordoba on Friday but the monument was saved as…
Wildfire in southern France kills elderly woman and burns 11,000 hectares
A fast-moving wildfire in southern France has scorched more than 11,000 hectares across 15 municipalities, killing one person,…