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Fire destroys prefab building Cyprus

Fire destroys prefab building

January 18th, 2019 A fire broke out on Thursday evening causing damage of €3,000 to a property in Livadia. Around 7pm, a 70-year-old man reported to police that a prefabricated house next to his home was on fire. The fire destroyed building materials stored there which were not insured. The fire services and electromechanical services are...
Car destroyed by fire (Update) Cyprus

Car destroyed by fire (Update)

January 13th, 2019 A car worth around €30,000 was destroyed by fire early on Sunday in Paralimni. The blaze on the car that was in the parking lot of the apartment building its owner lives in Paralimni erupted at around 2.30am. Despite that the fire service put out the blaze, the car, estimated at €30,000, was destroyed. Police said after...
Ayia Napa fire thought to have started outside building Cyprus

Ayia Napa fire thought to have started outside building

January 11th, 2019 A fire which extensively damaged a flat in Ayia Napa on Thursday evening is believed to have started outside the building. The fire services were notified of the fire on the first floor of a building in Ayia Napa’s Tefkrou Anthia street at 7.30pm. The fire was brought under control an hour later with the help of four fire...
Absent parents face trial after 3-year-old accidentally sets house on fire   Cyprus

Absent parents face trial after 3-year-old accidentally sets house on fire  

January 8th, 2019 The parents who had left their two underage children at home unsupervised on Monday afternoon leading to their three-year-old son setting the house on fire, were freed conditionally by the Limassol district court on Tuesday. A case of abandonment of two underage children was filed against the parents by the court on Tuesday, with the...
Fire on pipelayer platform under control (Updated) Cyprus

Fire on pipelayer platform under control (Updated)

January 4th, 2019 A fire broke out at midday on Friday in the engine room of the Castoro Sei pipelayer platform docked at the Eurogate terminal in Limassol. According to the fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis, the fire has been placed under control, but it will take some hours to extinguish completely as the four fire trucks that are at the scene...
Three cars destroyed by fire near airport Cyprus

Three cars destroyed by fire near airport

December 28th, 2018 Three cars were destroyed and two others damaged on Friday afternoon by a fire at a parking lot of a company located near Larnaca airport. A fire service spokesman said they had been notified at 5.30pm of the blaze and immediately dispatched three engines to the scene. The firefighters put out the fire, which, however, had...
Man suffers burns trying to put out fire in his home Cyprus

Man suffers burns trying to put out fire in his home

December 23rd, 2018 A home owner suffered serious burns on Sunday morning when a fire broke out in his home in the Laiki Lefkothea area of Limassol. According to the fire brigade, the fire started when a container left near an oil heater set alight. The fire brigade was called at 10.46 and responding with two fire engines out the fire out by...
Fire breaks out at Paphos café Cyprus

Fire breaks out at Paphos café

December 23rd, 2018 A fire broke out in a Paphos café on Sunday morning although the prompt response of the fire brigade extinguished it only minutes later. According to fire services, the fire broke out in a café on Danae Street at around 9am but was put out before it could spread to adjacent buildings. Damages estimated at €30,000 were caused to...
Elderly woman dies in house fire Cyprus

Elderly woman dies in house fire

December 20th, 2018 An 86-year-old woman died in Paphos after a fire broke out in her home apparently caused by a kerosene heater. The fire service was notified at 9am of a fire at a residence on Vasileos Constantinou Street. Firefighters who rushed to the scene found the woman on the floor unconscious with burns to her body. She was rushed to Paphos...
Fire at Larnaca apartment building destroys entrance Cyprus

Fire at Larnaca apartment building destroys entrance

December 13th, 2018 A fire that could have been set deliberately destroyed the ground floor entrance to an apartment block in Larnaca, the fire service said on Thursday. No one was injured in the incident. The fire at the five-storey building on Grivas Dhigenis was noticed just before 12pm by an off-duty firefighter who said he saw thick smoke coming...
Flat damaged in Paralimni fire Cyprus

Flat damaged in Paralimni fire

December 8th, 2018 A fire on Friday evening caused extensive damage to a flat in Paralimni, Famagusta, the fire service said. The service said it had received a call at around 10pm about a fire in a first-floor flat on Efterpis Street in the Kaparis area. Two engines were dispatched and firefighters put the blaze in the two-storey building under...
Two separate apartment fires in Nicosia Cyprus

Two separate apartment fires in Nicosia

November 28th, 2018 Two separate apartment fires broke out in Nicosia in the last 48 hours without, however, anyone suffering serious injury, the fire service said. Shortly after 7am on Wednesday, a fire broke out in a flat on the fifth floor of a block on Ayion Omoloyiton Street in Nicosia. It was brought under control 45 minutes later. The tenant of...
Apartment damaged in fire Cyprus

Apartment damaged in fire

November 23rd, 2018 A fire caused extensive damage to the rooms of an apartment in Paphos on Thursday evening. The fire services were alerted to the fire in a flat on the second floor of a building at 10.30pm. The elderly British woman living in the apartment managed to leave and was not hurt. Preliminary investigations suggest the fire was caused...
Fire in yard of Nicosia school Cyprus

Fire in yard of Nicosia school

November 19th, 2018 A fire at the Acropolis gymnasium on Sunday evening destroyed a decorative boat made from fibreglass that was in the school yard. According to an announcement from the fire service, they received a call about the fire at 10.27, to which two fire engines responded. The fire was put out by 10.53. The cause of the fire will be...
Three fires in Paphos brought under control Cyprus

Three fires in Paphos brought under control

November 11th, 2018 One of the three fires that broke out in the Paphos area on Sunday all have been brought under control, fore service spokesman Andreas Kettis said. He said that two fire engines from the Stroumbi station has attended one of two blazes in Arodes as had two helicopters. A fire has also been reported in the area of Lara which members...
Limassol, Paphos fires extinguished (Update3) Cyprus

Limassol, Paphos fires extinguished (Update3)

November 4th, 2018 Authorities on Sunday afternoon put out a large fire near Lofou and Ayios Therapon villages in Limassol that had been raging out of control since Saturday night, and burned around 1.5 square kilometres of wild vegetation and pine trees. Two more fires, which broke out one in the state forest in Pareklisia in Limassol and another one...
Lightning strike causes fire near Mylikouri Cyprus

Lightning strike causes fire near Mylikouri

October 13th, 2018 A fire broke out near the village of Mylikouri at approximately 10am when a lightning strike hit a tree in the area, the forestry department said on Saturday. According to the forestry department, after the tree was hit the fire then spread to the rest of the area. Currently, there are 10 trucks at scene, as well as four aircraft...
Fire crews douse fire and explosions near motorway exit (updated) Cyprus

Fire crews douse fire and explosions near motorway exit (updated)

October 9th, 2018 Crews had a hard time putting out a fire in the Larnaca district that broke out at around noon on Tuesday in an auto parts workshop due to flammable objects that caused explosions, the fire service said. It took firefighters and eight engines around an hour and a half to put out the fire that destroyed the workshop and caused...
Fire damages restaurant in Mazotos Cyprus

Fire damages restaurant in Mazotos

October 4th, 2018 A fire believed to have been caused by arson damaged a restaurant in Mazotos on Wednesday night. Police were informed of the fire at 11.30pm and fire services rushed to the scene to extinguish the blaze, which was brought under control an hour later. The amount of damage to the building will be calculated later on. The...
Kyrenia Cratos hotel fire under control (Updated) Cyprus

Kyrenia Cratos hotel fire under control (Updated)

September 19th, 2018 A massive fire that broke out at around 7.30pm at Cratos luxury beach hotel and casino in Kyrenia was put out around one and a half hours later after burning down a number of wooden structures, reports said on Wednesday evening. Four employees were taken to hospital after inhaling fumes. Reports said that eight wooden beach...
Fire burns wild vegetation in Paphos Cyprus

Fire burns wild vegetation in Paphos

September 17th, 2018 A fire in Akoursos, in Paphos, on Monday, burned four hectares of wild shrub, grass, and trees, the fire service said. The blaze broke out at around 4pm and was put under control around three and half hours later with the help of two water-dropping helicopters. Firefighters will remain in the area overnight as a precaution. The...
Fire in Pykni forest, Peyia under control Cyprus

Fire in Pykni forest, Peyia under control

September 16th, 2018 Crews of the fire service and the forestry department managed to put out a fire in the forest of Pykni in Peyia, in the Paphos district  that erupted at around 2.45 pm on Sunday some two hours later. The fire that broke out on state land near the picnic site of the Pykni forest, burned four hectares of pine-trees and wild vegetation....
Fire destroys shop in Nicosia Cyprus

Fire destroys shop in Nicosia

September 12th, 2018 By Doris Christodoulou A fire in the early morning hours destroyed a shop selling digital discs and cassettes on Trikoupis Street, in Nicosia. The Fire Service received the call at 4.35am and immediately dispatched three engines whose crews put the fire under control by around 6am. The blaze destroyed the shop and an...
Fire near Kourris dam under partial control (update 2) Cyprus

Fire near Kourris dam under partial control (update 2)

September 9th, 2018 The fire in the Alassa area near Kourris dam was brought under partial control by 3.20 on Sunday afternoon, the fire service announced. The fire, which initially broke out at around midnight on Saturday night and was brought under control by 8am after firefighters had battled through the night reignited at around 11.15 on Sunday...
Brazil mourns museum blaze, seeks answers to ‘tragedy foretold’ Americas

Brazil mourns museum blaze, seeks answers to ‘tragedy foretold’

September 3rd, 2018 Brazil on Monday mourned a fire that destroyed its National Museum, a cherished historical repository that lacked a sprinkler system and was reeling from years of financial neglect, making its destruction a "tragedy foretold." The one-time Imperial Palace's pastel-yellow facade remained standing on Monday morning but a peek inside its...
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