1217 GMT December 09, 2019
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Firefighters in eastern Australia used easing weather conditions on Sunday to bring bushfires under control ahead of forecast of soaring temperatures for next week.
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Nigerian firefighters were trying to extinguish a major fire at the Balogun market in central Lagos on Tuesday.
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Fast-moving Santa Ana winds are expected to blast through the southern US state of California on Wednesday, whipping up new wildfires after a brief respite for firefighters on Tuesday.
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Bolivian volunteer firefighters, exhausted from battling blazes sweeping rapidly across the country’s lowlands, are starting to lose hope and retreat from the front lines of some infernos in the drought-stricken region.
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By Jon Markma*
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Greek firefighters have battled a stubborn wildfire on the island of Evia, as heavy winds and high temperatures plague the island.
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Video footage shows clouds of smoke rising from a fire that broke out in olive groves and fields belonging to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after settlers attacked a school in the region.
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At least 26 firefighters died after hundreds were sent to tackle a forest blaze in remote mountains in southwest China's Sichuan province at the weekend, authorities said Monday.
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Firefighters on Sunday called for the evacuation of some 24,000 people from the Brazilian town hit by a deadly mudslide from a ruptured mining dam as rains added to concerns a second dam could collapse.
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Randy Brooks’ son had a request three years ago: What could his dad do to make wildland firefighting safer? To Brooks, a professor at the University of Idaho’s College of Natural Resources who deals with wildland firefighting, it was more of a command.
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Firefighters were gaining momentum as they battled several wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents in California.
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Around 3,000 firefighters in Portugal were struggling to put out more than 150 wildfires raging across the country Tuesday, as persistent hot and dry weather stoked the flames, officials said.
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A wildfire which prompted evacuations of over a thousand people from hundreds of homes and cabins in the US state of Utah has been contained.
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Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in New Zealand’s third-largest city of Christchurch.
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Tens of thousands of Iranians poured onto the streets of Tehran on Monday for the funeral of 16 firefighters killed when the city’s oldest high-rise collapsed during a blaze.
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