#fire service

Over the past three days, the fire services said they had responded to 89 calls for help, 53 fires, 31 special services and five hoax calls. The incidents, up until 6am on Monday, ...

Over one hundred firefighters worked to put under control a fire that broke out near Akamas this weekend, authorities said on Sunday. The fire threatened houses and destroyed 300,000 square metres ...

A large fire between the villages of Choirokitia and Vavla has been deemed manageable by authorities on Wednesday. The blaze was reported to have begun just after 2pm and brought ...

Sexual harassment within the police force and the fire service will now be considered a disciplinary offence, the Council of Ministers decided on Tuesday, approving a proposal tabled by the ...

A climber was rescued after falling in a ravine in Pissouri, Limassol, the fire service spokesperson said on Tuesday. According to Andreas Kettis, the individual was climbing a cliff in ...

The fire services carried out a major training exercise near Polis in Paphos which focused on rescuing an injured person on sloping terrain following a car crash. Fire services spokesman ...

An elderly woman and two dogs were rescued by the fire services from a ravine in Lefkara, after she had tried to rescue the pets that had fallen in earlier, ...

As part of the training activities aimed at improving its readiness, the Fire Service carried out an exercise on Thursday morning simulating a fire and a chlorine leak on a ...

Unknown remain the causes of a fire that broke out on the third floor of Giorkio Residence in the early morning hours on Sunday, according to fire service spokesman Andreas ...

All the relevant services are better staffed and better equipped to deal with fires than they were last year, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. He was speaking after ...

A fire that broke out in the area of Ayios Dometios in Nicosia on Thursday morning caused extensive damage to a car parked outside a home and firefighters had to ...

Some 1,300 people will be hired in the police force and the fire department during the course of 2023, raising the government payroll. According to an earlier briefing to parliament by Justice ...

The fire service on Tuesday participated in a fire drill hosted at Petrolina’s facilities in Vasiliko as part of training activities. The exercise followed a scenario where a fire ...

The Cypriot community of Melbourne and Victoria in Australia has donated a total of 103 respirator masks to the fire department. The community’s secretary Anastasia Sarakini said the donation was ...

A fire in a house in Paphos was caused by a lit cigarette butt forgotten on the premises, the Fire Service said on Thursday. The fire broke out around noon ...

Nicosia and Larnaca fire departments responded to multiple calls for help on Tuesday because of the intense weather phenomena. Nicosia fire departments responded to ten calls concerning falling trees, overhead ...

Firefighters on Saturday rescued a fox that became trapped in pool of recycled water at the wastewater treatment plant in Athienou. In his post on Twitter on Saturday afternoon, the ...

The fire department said on Wednesday that statistics published on Tuesday showing that Cyprus has the second highest percentage of professional firefighters in the EU were misleading. According to a ...

The fire that broke out shortly after 8pm on Sunday in the villages of Kedares, Praitori and Arsos, all located between the Paphos and Limassol districts, has been put out ...

After the Kalavasos community leader accused the fire service of passivity in their response to the fire that broke out at the waste treatment plant in Pentakomo on Friday, the ...

Firefighters are battling to extinguish a fire that broke out at a landfill site in Pentakomo. According to fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis, EMAK fire engines responded to call at 5.25...

The firefighter’s association has sounded the alarm over the department’s staffing crisis as fire season kicks off, saying it was a struggle to provide efficient services and public ...

A lit votive candle was the cause of a fire in a house in Agia Fyla, Limassol on Monday. No one was inside the structure at the time the fire ...

Two separate fires were set maliciously on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers in Kokkinotrimithia, the Fire Service said. According to an announcement released on ...