Source: bbc.com, August 07, 2021 Hundreds of firefighters are trying to control the fires with about 20 water-bombing aircraft. Strong winds and high temperatures are making it difficult to control the blazes, which have killed at least two people, including a firefighter. Huge clouds of smoke and ash near Athens has meant some people there… Continue reading Mass Evacuations as Greece Wildfires Continue
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California Wildfires Have Burned Over 4 Million Acres and Are Still Burning
Source: Staff The Associated Press, globalnews.ca, October 06, 2020 The amount of land scorched is larger than all of the recorded fires in California between 1932 and 1999. The staggering scale of California’s wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single fire surpassed 1 million acres. The new mark for the August Complex in the Coast… Continue reading California Wildfires Have Burned Over 4 Million Acres and Are Still Burning
Weary Californians try to find all that’s lost as fires rage
Source: Andrew Dalton and John L. Mone, The Associated Press, October 13, 2017 SONOMA, Calif. — They are trying to find lost loved ones, to sift through the ashes of their homes, to count, identify and mourn the dozens of dead — all while the wildfires rage on. Communities in Northern California prepared for another day… Continue reading Weary Californians try to find all that’s lost as fires rage
Alberta volunteer firefighter, 19, charged with 18 counts of arson
By Meredith Macleod, CTV News, May 1, 2016 A teenager facing 18 counts of arson in Mayerthorpe, Alta. is a junior volunteer firefighter who helped to fight a number of the fires he’s now accused of setting. Lawson Michael Schalm, 19, was charged by Mayerthorpe RCMP in connection to a recent rash of blazes in… Continue reading Alberta volunteer firefighter, 19, charged with 18 counts of arson