Forest fires are part of the natural cycle, but when fires threaten life and property on a grand scale, human intervention is ...

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A total of around 400 tons of water were deployed to combat the forest fire hotspots. The amphibious aircraft, which effectively executed its designated responsibilities and successfully ...

Finally, the Iranian government had sent an aerial firefighter Ilyushin-76 aircraft that brought the forest fire under control after its two sorties.

The fire broke out earlier in a forested area, and during the firefighting efforts, a 30-year-old forest ranger experienced ...

Dawn reported that the fire has engulfed a large forest area of Sherani district, with reports saying that efforts by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government so far have remained futile.

Very few remnants of snow persist along the northern-facing slopes in the Bighorn National Forest to help combat the Elk Fire ...

BERLIN (Tribune News Service) — A large brush fire burning on Lamentation Mountain that resulted in the death of a ...

Officials said helicopter runs with water buckets plan to resume around 9 a.m. Thursday to fight the massive brush fire on ...

Of those, 218 fires were in the northwest, said Chris Marchand, fire information officer with Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services. "Certainly it falls well below the 10-year average ...

Fighting the fire has been challenging for crews as flames move through remote and rough areas of the national forest near the ... more than a dozen aircraft have been working to extinguish ...