Fire

Fire has ravaged several forests in Dang district in the past week. The fire has destroyed fresh sprouts and grassland in the forests. The steep terrain has made fighting the fire difficult.

A forest fire, which started in the afternoon on 9th March from Chenari, near Chazam in Trashigang, has burnt down an automobile workshop, three cars and 25 two-wheelers kept for repair there, as t

A raging wild fire swept into a suburb of Athens, Greece early Sunday, forcing authorities in one town to order 10,000 people to evacuate their homes.

The fire, which began on 31 July, destroyed around 1,000 hectares of land on La Palma Island and forced some 4,000 evacuations.

Bushfires have killed at least 84 people and destroyed more than 700 homes in south eastern Australia. (08/02/2009)