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The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

US allocates $930m for forest thinning in fire-stricken west

Climate change has contributed to explosive wildfire seasons as overgrown forests combine with hot and dry temperatures.

Al Jazeera

Everything we know after multiple fire engines are spotted on Newcastle Quayside

Crews from Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene following alarm activation incident at a block of flats on Queen Street in Newcastle city centre

Chronicle Live

Fire crews swarm street after solar panel battery starts smoking

Plumes of smoke were seen escaping from the ground floor of a terraced house

Manchester Evening News

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West Belfast community stands together against attacks on NIFRS crews

"Our job is hard enough, let alone being attacked on our way to do the job"

Belfast Live

North Shields fire tragedy: Work underway to make building safe for probe into Leah Casson's death

The 18-year-old was killed in a blaze at a flat in Vicarage Street in North Shields on Monday morning

Chronicle Live

Six rescued from house fire in Tallaght as gardai launch investigation

Emergency services were alerted to the incident of "criminal damage" in the Jobstown area at around 2:55am

Dublin Live

House fire in Scots town sees four children and two adults rushed to hospital

The fire broke out on Thursday morning, and crews are still in attendance as they work to make the area safe.

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Feds send $930 million to curb 'crisis' of US West wildfires

The Biden administration is directing $930 million toward reducing wildfire dangers in 10 western states by clearing trees and underbrush from national forests

The Independent UK

Arsonists set wrong house on fire as brick thrown through window

A brick was thrown through the window and the front door was set on fire

Liverpool Echo

85-year-old man dies after firefighters rescue him from blaze at his South Shields bungalow

The 85-year-old resident passed away at South Tyneside District Hospital on Sunday

Chronicle Live

London Coca-Cola factory acid leak sees 200 staff evacuated as fire crews rush to scene

Firefighters were seen donning chemical protection suits and breathing equipment after reports of a spillage involving hydrochloric acid at the site in south-east London where 200 people had to be evacuated

Daily Mirror

Hastings fire: Huge blaze at ex-nightclub as neighbours told shut windows and stay away

A massive fire has ripped through a former nightclub on George Street, in Hastings, with local residents told to keep their windows and doors closed, and avoid the sea front area

Daily Mirror

Bexley chemical leak: Police urge residents to keep windows closed after spill

‘No injuries have been reported’

Evening Standard

Inferno village still traumatised 6 months on from fire hell on hottest day of 2022

Wildfires broke out across tinder-dry Britain on July 19, 2022 leaving firefighters battling in the heatwave. It was the busiest day for the London Fire Brigade since the Second World War

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Belfast Live

Andrew Halliday: Man, 52, dies in fatal house fire in Omagh

The PSNI and NIFRS are continuing to investigate the cause of the fatal blaze

Daily Record

Car found torched on Scots footbridge as cops probe 'deliberate fire'

Emergency services raced to the Coltbridge Viaduct over the Water of Leith in Edinburgh after the alarm was raised at around 7pm on Monday.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh police probe torched cars left abandoned in residential area days apart

Eyewitnesses in the area described their shock as the car went up in furious flames on a bridge across the Water of Leith on Monday night.

Nottingham Post

Engineers working on gas leak after junction closed in Nottingham

Workers have been dealing with a gas escape on a 24” diameter low pressured gas pipe

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Glasgow Live

Man taken to hospital after fire breaks out in high-rise Knightswood flat

Emergency services were called to Archerhill Square on Tuesday night after a fire broke out inside a flat in the high-rise block. A man was taken to hospital following the incident.

The Guardian - UK

Grenfell showed exactly why we need red tape, yet the Tories are desperate to bin thousands of laws

As parliament debates sweeping away EU rules, MPs should remember that deregulation paved the way to the deadly fire in 2017, says author Peter Apps

Dynamite News

2 Killed After Fire Breaks Out In West Bengal's East Medinipur

At least two people were killed after a fire broke out in the East Medinipur district of West Bengal on Wednesday. Read on for details:

Daily Record

Teenage girl, 18, with 'heart of gold' tragically dies in fatal flat blaze

Police believe the body belongs to Leah Casson, and was found in the property after the fire broke out just before 3.30am on Monday.

The Conversation

20 years ago, vast bushfires razed Canberra's suburbs – and bushfire science was never the same

It has been 20 years to the day since bushfires burst out of the Brindabella Ranges and into the suburbs of our nation’s bush capital. Four lives were lost, many people were injured and more than 500 homes were destroyed.

The Canberra Times

Why urban fire trucks failed on the bushfire frontline

Five of Canberra's fire trucks were disabled during the 2003 firestorm.

The Canberra Times

'A day like no other': when Canberra's quiet summer became a wildfire hell

The 20th anniversary of the Canberra firestorm, which destroyed over 500 homes and killed four people

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