The transfer of forest firefighting duties to the interior ministry was a mistake, Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou said on Thursday during a meeting with the forestry department union. “This decision is ...

Experts, sector representatives discuss ways to innovate firefighting, fire management 'If everyone and every organization, especially the world's foresters, does their part, it is possible to combat ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is in talks with manufacturers to buy firefighting planes to battle the increased risk of severe wildfires like those raging in Southern Europe, the bloc's head ...

The forestry department on Tuesday sought to downplay revelations of official documents showing that it took the finance ministry six months to respond to an urgent plea for hiring forest firefighters ...

Firefighters have been at the scene of several fires - one appears to be spreading rapidly across the Bwlch mountain, Rhondda. Firefighters are at the scene of several large wildfires across the ...

Firefighting planes have been forced to drop water bombs on a massive forest blaze near a huge Benidorm water park which is popular with British tourists. Helicopters were seen circling the fire in ...

Smouldering barbeques and campfires are being found in a forest devastated by a large-scale blaze two years ago, Forestry England has said. A fire in Wareham Forest in May 2020, thought to have been ...

Increase in enforcement did not mean that forest and land fires were getting out of hand but showed the seriousness of law ...

Trump administration funding cuts and a loss of federal workers who help support wildland firefighting continues to make planning for the upcoming wildfire season a challenge, according to forest and ...

Spanish authorities evacuated almost 1,000 people to protect them from a blaze which destroyed at least 21,000 hectares in the province of Ávila in August. The fire was man-made but conditions in the ...

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