Raging wildfire nears coastal Australian town
Firefighters today struggled to contain a wildfire which is burning near a coastal town where deadly blazes killed nine people last year.

500 evacuated as US wildfire threat grows
ABOUT 500 people who live in the centre of the state were ordered to evacuate as a wildfire started by lightning threatened 200 homes in the towns of Crossroads and Edgington.

Cliff gorse blaze
POLICE, firefighters and the coastguard worked together yesterday to put out a major scrub fire.

100 flee as huge heath fire rages in Dorset
A MAJOR fire swept Canford Heath in Dorset last night leading to about 100 people being forced to flee their homes. Up to 170 firefighters were called in to tackle the blaze on 250 acres of land.

Six die as raging wildfire sweeps northern Texas
A RAGING 300,000-acre wildfire in northern Texas has killed six people, in one of the biggest blazes in the state's history.

Wildfire rages over LA hills
MORE than 3000 firefighters have been battling against a 16,000-acre wildlife which has raged in hills and canyons in Los Angeles.

Fire ravages rainforest
FIRES have devoured an estimated 1.1 million acres of Amazonian rainforest and pasture in Bolivia, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency in two provinces.

Portugal feels heat as more wildfires flare
MORE than 1000 firefighters are battling flames in northern and central Portugal as wildfires continue to flare up following blazes that consumed hundreds of acres of land in the past months.

Firefighters die as forest fires sweep Spain
TWO firefighters died when at least ten forest fires swept across tinder-dry landscapes as temperatures across Spain reached 42 Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit).

5,000 flee as Hawaii bush fire rages
NEARLY 5,000 people in Hawaii were ordered to flee their homes to escape a bush fire that is burning out of control.

Thousands of firemen battle forest blazes in Portugal
MORE than 3000 firefighters battled 21 blazes in Portuguese forests late last night.

Cabinet holds crisis talks on how to halt Spain's killer forest fire
POLICE yesterday recovered the blackened corpses of 11 volunteer firefighters who died after being trapped by a forest fire which raged for a third day in parched central Spain.

Barbecue party admit killer fire
A GROUP of day-trippers have confessed to starting the blaze that killed 11 firefighters in central Spain in the country's worst firefighting loss in years.

Spanish forest blaze kills 14 firemen
FOURTEEN firefighters were killed yesterday tackling a massive forest blaze that forced hundreds of people to flee their villages in drought-stricken Spain.

Authorities battle large forest fire in southern France
AUTHORITIES cleared six campgrounds in southern France yesterday as a precaution while firefighters battled a large forest fire that officials said appeared to have been deliberately set.



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