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A fire near the village of Tala, in Paphos, burned around eight hectares of dry grass, wild vegetation, and trees, the fire service said on Friday. The fire broke out ...

A drone was used on Saturday to locate a fire in a rural area while a 70-year-old man was also seen with it lighting a fire. According to a police ...

A fire that broke out around noon on Saturday between Tochni and Choirokitia was brought under control a few hours later after burning four hectares of dry brush, wild vegetation ...

Firefighters managed to bring a wildfire in Paphos, between the village of Nata and Kelokedara, under control on Friday afternoon, the fire service said. According to fire service spokesman Andreas ...

The mayor of Ypsonas, in Limassol, suggested Thursday that a morning fire at an industrial area had been set deliberately. Pandelis Georgiou said 20 incidents had been recorded in Ayios Sylas ...

Captain Stelios Kotzikas, the Republic of Cyprus Forestry Department’s Aerial Fire Fighting Unit Chief Pilot, has paid tribute to a working relationship with the Bases that dates back to 1983. ...

A fire which raged in the Paphos district on Sunday was put under control, with firefighters putting up a fight for about three hours. According to fire services spokesman Andreas ...

A woman’s plea after suffering smoke inhalation after saving 17 dogs from one of this week’s many fires The recent fires that have ravaged large swathes of the countryside ...

Firefighters on Thursday brought under control a blaze – the third during the day – in the area of Polis Chrysochous, near the village of Prodromi, after the flames at one point ...

Officials agreed Thursday that stricter, more flexible, and immediate legislation must be put in place to punish activities that cause catastrophic fires before they became a problem, Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides ...

The fire that broke out in the industrial area of Agios Silas in Limassol on Thursday at 10.30am, prompting the fire department to dispatch four fire trucks, two helicopters and ...

Cyprus on Thursday will be on red alert for forest fires, the forestry department said on Wednesday, calling on the public to be particularly careful, as strong winds up to ...

The fire in the Paphos villages of Yiolou and Simou which saw some residents evacuated on Sunday evening was started by human hand, fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said on ...

The massive fire in Paphos villages of Yiolou and Simou which saw some residents evacuated was put under control by Sunday evening, fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said. The blaze, ...

People who were living in Pissouri landslide homes accuse the government of double standards in comparison with fire-stricken areas Residents of Pissouri homes that have either been destroyed or seriously ...

Two months after a deadly fire ripped through their communities, the people of the affected villages are slowly piecing their lives back together. Jonathan Shkurko speaks to some of the ...

Firefighters on Friday managed to prevent a large fire in Limassol from reaching pristine forest, bringing it under partial control around four hours after it broke out. The blaze in ...

The increasing use of drones to fight fires was underlined on Friday by the Cyprus Institute, whose Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL) spotted a fire. One of the lab’s ...

In a special ceremony Thursday evening, President Nicos Anastasiades thanked the Cypriot firefighting mission deployed to Greece last month for going “above and beyond,” adding that their dedication made all ...

Fire fighters have contained a fire which broke out in Peyia forest in the Paphos district on Monday morning, the forestry department has announced. It said the fire, which broke ...

Very often when a government tells its citizens there is no cause for alarm or no cause for concern, they are either completely misinformed or are trying to play down ...

Authorities stayed on standby on Thursday evening to contain a fire that broke out earlier in the day at the site of a factory in the industrial area of Yeri, ...

A fire that broke out on Monday near Androlykou and Prodromi villages in the Paphos district was brought under control around 3pm, the fire service said. The flames broke out ...

The team of Greek experts sent to survey areas affected by huge fires in early July have finalised an action plan for what needs to be done to avoid flooding ...