Topic: wildfire

Wildfires raze dozens of homes in New Zealand

Wildfires raze dozens of homes in New Zealand

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 01:45 PM

Wildfires have destroyed up to 50 homes in New Zealand, authorities announced Monday, saying it was a miracle no one was hurt as "a wall of orange" razed most of a remote South Island village. Read more »

Fires in Brazil's Amazon the worst in a decade, data shows

Fires in Brazil's Amazon the worst in a decade, data shows

Jake Spring, Reuters
Posted at Oct 02 02:27 AM

BRASILIA - Fires in Brazil's Amazon increased 13 percent in the first nine months of the year compared with a year ago, as the rainforest region experiences its worst rash of fires in a decade, data from space research agency Inpe showed on Thursday. Read more »

'It burned everything': Fires surge on indigenous land in Brazil

'It burned everything': Fires surge on indigenous land in Brazil

Mauricio Angelo, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Oct 01 08:29 AM

BRASILIA - On Guató indigenous land, in Brazil's western state of Matto Grosso do Sul, drought-worsened fires this year have burned through 90 percent of the tribe's 11,000 hectares of territory, incinerating the crops and native plants they depend on. Read more »

3 killed in fresh wildfires in Northern California

3 killed in fresh wildfires in Northern California

Tim Arango, Johnny Diaz and Carly Stern, The New York Times
Updated as of Sep 29 03:12 PM

California’s famed wine country, already suffering an economic blow brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and covered in smoke for weeks, is on fire again.  Read more »

Wildfire hits Deer Park, California

Wildfire hits Deer Park, California

Adrees Latif, Reuters
Posted at Sep 28 05:15 PM

A woman wearing flame-resistant clothing photographs an airplane as it drops red fire retardant on the Glass Fire at a vineyard in Deer Park, California, USA on Sunday.  Read more »

On the fire line, grueling work and an ever-fiercer enemy

On the fire line, grueling work and an ever-fiercer enemy

John Schwartz, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 16 03:07 PM

On Tuesday, fires continued their widespread destruction across much of the US West Coast, taking advantage of tinder-dry brush and undergrowth primed for disaster by the increased temperatures and dryness from climate change. Smoke made the air over Portland, Oregon, the worst in the world, and the San Francisco Bay Area set a local record after nearly a month of hazardous air quality alerts — conditions that research has linked to health problems. Read more »

Filipinos safe from western US inferno: DFA

Filipinos safe from western US inferno: DFA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 15 12:01 PM

Filipinos have been spared so far from the ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West that have killed at least 35 and forced hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday.  Read more »

As the West Coast burns, communities unravel with each death

As the West Coast burns, communities unravel with each death

Thomas Fuller and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 14 07:16 AM

With thick smoke blanketing large parts of Washington, Oregon and California and tens of thousands of people evacuated, the fires have been the worst in decades, exacerbated by climate change. By Saturday, fires in California had burned 26 times more territory than they had at the same time last year.   Read more »

16 dead, 500,000 evacuated as western US burns out of control

16 dead, 500,000 evacuated as western US burns out of control

Javier Tovar, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 12 05:28 AM

FRESNO, California - More than 20,000 firefighters from across the United States on Friday battled sprawling deadly wildfires up and down the West Coast -- a wave of infernos that have forced more than half a million people to flee their homes. Read more »

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