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Wildfire leaves the town of Paradise, California devastated. The late season fires burning across the state have left at least nine people dead and thousands of homes destroyed. IMAGES
Plumes of smoke rise above the now-evacuated fire-ravaged village of Kiotari on the Greek island of Rhodes as the blazes continue to ravage the island for a fifth consecutive day. Thousands of locals and tourists fled the Aegean island over the weekend in what authorities called the country's largest-ever wildfire evacuation. IMAGES
Nine people are injured and more than a hundred homes affected by forest fires in south-central Chile, where an intense heat wave is raging. The state of emergency is declared in several regions. IMAGES
Famagusta, Aug 13 (EFE) .- The announcement of the partial opening of Varosha, in violation of a series of UN resolutions made by the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on July 20, poses a dilemma among the Greek Cypriot population.Famagusta came under Turkish control in 1974 during the Turkish invasion and has remained abandoned ever since. (Camera: FLORA ALEXANDROU)SHOT LIST: THE VAROSHA GHOST TOWN IN FAMAGUSTA, CYPRUS.
Greenville/Plumas County, Aug 11 (EFE/EPA).- The huge wildfire that has been burning for four weeks in northeastern California has already destroyed more than 550 homes and firefighters have only managed to get it 30 percent contained, authorities reported on Wednesday.So far, the Dixie fire, dubbed thusly because of the name of the mountain highway along which it began, has burned 202,700 hectares (some 510,000 acres), according to the latest figures from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).The blaze, which has been raging since July 14 over a mountainous area near Lassen Volcanic National Park, is already the second largest fire ever registered in California, surpassed only by the August Complex fire last year, although that fire was actually 38 separate fires all burning in the same general area. (Camera: JOHN MABANGLO).SHOT LIST: HOMES AND BUILDINGS DESTROYED BY THE DIXIE FIRE IN GREENVILLE, CALIFORNIA, AND THE DIXIE FIRE IN PLUMAS COUNTY NEAR TAYLORSVILLE, CALIFORNIA, US.
Istanbul, Jul 31 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Erdem Sahin) The death toll from the wildfires hitting southern and western Turkey increased to six as authorities confirmed on Saturday that two firefighters died after being trapped in their tanker truck. Four firefighters were stuck on Friday inside their vehicle in the southern province of Antalya, where the wildfire has been ravaging since Wednesday.FOOTAGE OF THE FIRES IN THE MARMARIS DISTRICT IN MUGLA.