#fire

A fire broke out in Tseri, Nicosia on Wednesday, with four aircraft working to extinguish it, the fire services said. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said the blaze burned wild ...

Two fires were raging out of control in Limassol, burning land at the Akrotiri marshes and wild vegetation between Pachna and Avdimou on Monday afternoon. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis ...

An orange warning for extreme high temperatures was issued for Saturday, with temperatures expected to reach around 43C inland and 32C in higher mountainous areas. The warning is valid from 11:00 ...

A fire was raging in the Fasouri area of Limassol and drivers were warned to avoid the area, the British bases said on Wednesday afternoon. It was put under partial ...

Villages in Limassol are due to create a Monitoring Centre for wildfires it emerged on Friday, after the area has been one of the hardest hit this year. The communities ...

Thursday morning’s flare up of the Miliou fire is being contained, while police are investigating the cause of the fire that broke out on Wednesday afternoon between Miliou, Yiolou ...

A fire that broke out on Monday early afternoon in the village of Fasouri, located in the Limassol district and close to the Akrotiri military base, has been brought under ...

The immediate hiring of 108 contract workers for the Forestry Department was approved on Wednesday by the cabinet. The new staff will cover needs in “firefighters, special vehicle operators and fireguards”. ...

A fire broke out in the area between Avdimou and Pissouri in the Limassol district on Tuesday. According to fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis, two trucks from their service and ...

Authorities on Monday were investigating the causes of a fire that broke out in Klirou in Nicosia. The fire was brought under complete control on Sunday afternoon shortly after it ...

A fire on Friday morning at a Larnaca residence caused extensive damages to property and the sunroom of the apartment’s balcony. In a post on platform X, fire service ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested as a suspected for causing a fire in Aradippou, which burned one hectare of land, police said on Wednesday. He was later remanded for five ...

One hectare of brushland and 60 large bales of hay were burned by a fire that broke out on Tuesday morning in Aradippou, in Larnaca. The fire also damaged a property. ...

Cyprus is ready to assist the Greek authorities to fight the fires currently raging in the country, chief fire officer Nikos Logginos said on Saturday. Speaking on CyBC radio, he ...

A holiday home in Zygi was extensively damaged in a fire in the early hours of Friday. Old cars in the yard were also damaged. Police said the fire was ...

Close to two dozen homes were affected by the two days of wildfires in the Paphos area, with the blazes destroying five homes completely, the deputy district governor of Paphos ...

Firefighters were battling ‘continuous and intense’ flare-ups between the communities of Polemi and Kourdaka, fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis said on Wednesday afternoon. The fire that broke out on Tuesday ...

A total of three villages have been evacuated as homes and animals have been engulfed in flames as wildfires raged out of control in the Paphos district on Tuesday. Psathi ...

A total of 80 unaccompanied minor migrants, who were housed at a facility in Oroklini, are being relocated to other facilities within and outside Larnaca following two fires that occurred late ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 74-year-old man on suspicion of having caused a fire in Farmakas a day ago. According to police, the fire burned 15 hectares of trees and dry ...

Six additional aircraft rented by Cyprus to help combat forest fires are set to arrive in the next few weeks, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Tuesday. Speaking on CyBC ...

A fire in Gerasa, Limassol that broke out in the afternoon was extinguished five hours later on Tuesday. According to the forestry department, 70 of its officers with 14 fire engines, six ...

The north’s chamber of environmental engineers on Monday sounded the alarm over the prospect of fires breaking out at the north’s landfill in Koutsoventis due to increased temperatures ...

Limassol police on Monday were continuing an intense search for the arsonists who caused a large fire in Ayios Sylas and Ayios Therapontas. The fire in Ayios Sylas was set ...