#fire

Hong Kong on Saturday mourned the 128 people known to have died in a massive fire at a high-rise apartment complex, a toll that is likely to rise with 150 still missing ...

Hong Kong police arrested the bosses of a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter on Thursday over the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years, which killed at least 83 people ...

One person was hospitalised with burns from a fire that broke out on Tuesday in a block of flats in Nicosia. Two other residents had ascended to the roof to ...

Foreign experts will be brought in to conduct preventive inspections on all buses operating in Cyprus following repeated incidents of fires caused by maintenance issues, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades announced ...

The wildfire that broke out on Sunday near the Paphos villages of Stroumbi and Kili and reignited around noon on Monday in the ravine between the two communities has been ...

Fire trucks are struggling to reach the blaze, which has been burning since around 10am between the communities of Kili and Stroumbi in the Paphos district, Kili community leader Michalis ...

Fire crews in Limassol are trying to contain a blaze in Pachna that is burning dry grass, wild vegetation and several trees, fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Sunday. ...

The estimated cost of this summer’s forest fires in the mountainous regions of Limassol comes to €60 million, of which under €5 million has been paid out in compensation so far, ...

Firefighters continue to battle a wildfire in the mountainous eastern Paphos region, which broke out on Wednesday. The fire is in the Pentalia area, close to the Panayia tou Sinti ...

A fire in Goudi village, in the Paphos district, threatened homes on Monday night. The fire broke out in reed beds and thus spread rapidly, placing two nearby houses in ...

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on Thursday after a fire broke out in a high school in Limassol on Wednesday night, the police said. The fire had broken out ...

The causes of a house fire which broke out in Dali on Wednesday night will be investigated by authorities, the police said Thursday morning. According to the police, the fire ...

A fire broke out in a first-floor flat in Nicosia’s old town on Saturday evening, with the fire brigade intervening to rescue three people and a dog. Three fire ...

A small wildfire in the Troodos mountain village of Gourri was brought under control “within a few minutes”, the forestry department said on Saturday. The fire broke out at 2.10pm ...

A total of 11 buses have been immobilised in Paphos to undergo inspections after a fire broke out in the engine of an electric bus on Thursday, the director of Paphos ...

The fire that broke out inside a ground-floor shop in Larnaca was caused by a short electrical circuit, the police confirmed on Tuesday. According to the police, the fire started ...

Extensive damages were caused to the car of a 50-year-old Larnaca man when it was set fire to outside his house. Examinations at the scene discovered a flammable substance, while ...

All possibilities remain open, including that of criminal activity, fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Tuesday after a fire broke out the previous evening at an electronics store in ...

A fire broke out in the chimney of a fast-food restaurant in Larnaca’s Agios Lazaros area on Thursday, injuring a staff member. The employee was hurt while trying to ...

A fire broke out in the kitchen of a fourth-floor apartment in Nicosia, the fire brigade said on Friday. It said that from the evidence gathered so far, the fire ...

A stolen motorcycle was destroyed in a fire that broke out on Monday night under a bridge in the Peristerona area of Nicosia, police said on Tuesday. Officers arriving at ...

A fire broke out late on Monday night in an apartment in Limassol, forcing the evacuation of a three-storey building. The alarm was raised at 11.19pm after reports of a ...

A school bus caught fire on Tuesday morning in the Paphos village of Chlorakas, causing alarm among those on board. The vehicle was moving along Archbishop Makarios Avenue near Georgios ...

A wildfire that broke out near the village of Goudi, south of Polis Chrysochous, on Monday morning has been brought under control, the fire brigade said. The fire brigade said ...