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3 killed after helicopter crashes in central China
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 29 (ANI): Three people died when a helicopter crashed into a park in the central Chinese province of Hunan, reported China Central Television.
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China deploys 500 firefighters to tackle forest blaze in Tibet
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 28 (ANI): The Chinese Ministry of Emergency Situations on Thursday said that it has deployed 500 firefighters to tackle forest blaze in the Nyingchi prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Greece surveys damage from wildfires of 'exceptional magnitude'
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 13 (ANI): Nearly 100,000 hectares of forestry and farmland had burned in wildfires of Greece fuelled by an extraordinary heatwave at the beginning of August, said European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) on Wednesday (local time).
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Israel to send help to fight wildfires in Greece
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], August 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Israel intends to send three planes to help Greece extinguish forest fires in addition to 15 Israeli firefighters who are already assisting the efforts, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told his Greek counterpart.
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Turkey's death toll from wildfires rises to 8
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey] August 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The death toll from the wildfires in Turkey has increased to eight, while the number of injured now stands at 864, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Sunday.
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Person suspected of starting forest fires in Turkey arrested
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey] August 1 (ANI): President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that Turkey has arrested a person allegedly responsible for starting the ongoing forest fires in the country.
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Four killed, over 180 injured in wildfires in Turkey
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey] July 31 (ANI): At least four people have been killed so far and 183 injured in wildfires in southern Turkey, forcing the evacuation of villages and hotels, said reports.
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Evacuation of Russian tourists underway after wildfires in southern Turkey
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 30 (ANI): The evacuation of 100 Russian tourists is underway from the Titanic Deluxe Bodrum Hotel in Turkey after a forest fire, the Russian Association of Tour Operators (ATOR) said on Thursday.
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Massive fire breaks out in forest at J-K's Rajouri
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 2 (ANI): A massive forest fire broke out in Rajouri's Kuldabbi area of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.
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New NASA Earth System Observatory to help address, mitigate climate change
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 25 (ANI): NASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes, the US space agency on said Monday.
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Greek fire services localize massive wildfire west of Athens
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], May 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The forest fire that has continued for almost a week west of Athens has now receded to scattered isolated hotbeds, the Greek Fire Department said on Monday.
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Mizoram forest fire: CM Zoramthanga thanks PM Modi for Centre's prompt ass
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Aizawl (Mizoram) [India], April 26 (ANI): Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Monday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for assuring all possible support from the Centre in overcoming the wildfire in Lunglei and Lawngtlai that broke out on April 24 and and has been raging on since the
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