Tag: fire

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Brazil: convoy with nuclear fuel came under fire; police escort repel attack

  

  Armed men shot at members of a convoy transporting uranium to one of Brazil’s two working nuclear power plants on a coastal road in Rio de Janeiro state on Tuesday, police and the company managing the plant said.

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 12:05 UTC

  Taiwanese jigger on fire in Falklands' waters: 64 crew members evacuated

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that a Taiwanese jigger by the name of Jung Ron has caught fire approximately 60 nautical miles north of Stanley.

• Monday, February 11th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Hundreds attend funeral of Flamengo 15 year old footballer killed in a fire at the training ground

  

  Hundreds of grief-stricken people on Sunday attended the funeral of 15-year-old Christian Esmerio Candido, one of the ten young soccer players killed in a fire at the training ground of Brazilian soccer club Flamengo.

• Saturday, July 14th 2018 - 07:42 UTC

  No casualties reported as Chilean Antarctica base goes down in flames

  

  The Antarctic Maritime Government building in King George Island went down in flames at dawn Thursday. Nobody was injured and maritime traffic support went on with help from the INACh and the Air Force.

• Wednesday, May 2nd 2018 - 08:08 UTC

  Towering inferno in Sao Paulo: 24-storey building collapses after huge blaze

  

  A 24-storey building used by squatters in the center of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, collapsed early Tuesday after a blaze that tore through the structure, leaving at least three missing. Survivors described waking in the night to find themselves surrounded by flames and escaping with their children before the tower turned to rubble.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  NASA satellite keeps track of wildfires in Argentina

  

  Roughly 12,000 wildfires burn each year in Argentina, charring more than 1.3 million hectares (5,000 square miles) of forest and grasslands. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an image of one of them on January 29, 2018.

• Saturday, January 13th 2018 - 09:40 UTC

  Four churches attacked in Santiago ahead of Pope Francis visit to Chile on Monday

  

  Four Catholic churches in Santiago were attacked with fire bombs before dawn on Friday, causing minor damage and leaving notes threatening Pope Francis just three days ahead of the pontiff’s visit to Chile next week, police said.

• Saturday, December 30th 2017 - 11:49 UTC

  Fire in the Venezuela’s biggest refinery

  

  A fire was registered late Friday at the Refining Complex of Amuay, northwest of Venezuela. The accident baddly affected a distiller. El secretary of the Petroleum’s workers federation, Iván Freites, denounced irregularities due to the lack of maintenance and investment in the oil industry by the State’s PDVSA

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 - 10:08 UTC

  Wildfire burns home and forces evacuation of hundreds in Valparaiso

  

  A wildfire ravaged woods and burned 100 homes in the hilly Chilean port city of Valparaiso, where authorities evacuated hundreds of people. At least 19 people were reported hurt after the fire broke out on the outskirts of the historic port city, the government said.

• Saturday, November 26th 2016 - 13:44 UTC

  Whole world -even Palestinians- helps Israel fight fires gone beyond control

  

  Palestinian firefighters and trucks and firefighting aircraft from Turkey, Greece, Croatia and Russia joined the operation to put down the flames. For four days, Israel has fought in its entire territory dozens of fires that spread thanks to a great drought and strong winds.