Tag: forest fires

• Monday, March 15th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentine president attacked and stoned while visiting areas devastated by Patagonia forest fires

  

  Argentina is not an easy country to manage, particularly when institutions are weak and governments lack credibility. Such was the experience of president Alberto Fernandez during a visit to Patagonia to announce support for residents that suffered the devastation caused by forest fires in the region.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne again threatened by high temperatures and bush fires

  

  Soaring temperatures are set to stoke simmering bushfires in Australia's southeast on Thursday with Sydney forecast to hit 41 degrees Celsius following a few days of reprieve.

• Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:15 UTC

  Chile: Allegedly intentional fire in Valparaíso consumed around 245 houses at Christmas

  

  A voracious fire in the Chilean city of Valparaíso began on Tuesday and extended until after Christmas Eve on Wednesday, leaving about 245 homes destroyed, 2000 people without power and a dozen injured. The authorities believe that the fires in the tourist city were intentional.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Heavy rain helps put out the fires in Bolivia that have ravaged millions of hectares

  

  Heavy rain that has drenched eastern Bolivia's Chiquitania tropical savanna has put out fires that have ravaged millions of hectares in recent months, authorities said on Sunday.

• Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 11:49 UTC

  Argentine firefighter hospitalised in Bolivia for smoke poisoning

  

  Argentine forest firefighter Jhonatan Villalva had to be ferried Wednesday to a medical facility after suffering from poisoning by smoke as a result of his deployment to the fire-plagued Chiquitanía area in Bolivia.

• Monday, September 16th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Borneo schools closed for a week because of dangerous air quality caused by forest fires

  

  Schools in two cities in the Indonesian part of Borneo island will be closed for a week after smoke from forest fires caused air quality to hit “dangerous” levels, a local government official said on Sunday. 

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolivia admits forest fires has destroyed 1.7 million hectares

  

  Wildfires raging in Bolivia's forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares, officials said on Wednesday, amid a US$11 million effort by the government to contain them.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Forest fires in Bolivia: half a million hectares, 1.700 fighters and a Super tanker

  

  Bolivian authorities warned this week that 70% of the department of Santa Cruz — where more than a quarter of the country's population lives — is under “extreme risk” from forest fires. According to the government, nearly 500,000 hectares of forest have now been turned into ashes.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 18:32 UTC

  State of emergency in Chile because of wildfires; smoke cloaked Santiago

  

  Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as more than a dozen wildfires that have scorched nearly 50,000 hectares threatened to encroach on towns, factories and vineyards. Firefighters, forestry service personnel and members of the military are battling 18 separate blazes in the center and south of the country that have been fueled by strong winds and a heat wave.

• Friday, January 6th 2012 - 07:05 UTC

  Chile’s forest regions on fire; six fire fighters killed; Piñera to apply anti terror legislation

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera invoked anti-terror legislation after at least six fire-fighters died in a wildfire he believes was started deliberately.