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Two firefighting helicopters and a total of 18 crew members arrived in Cyprus from Jordan with the aim of boosting Cyprus’ firefighting capabilities ahead of the summer, the agriculture ministry said ...

By Andria Kades and Jonathan Shkurko The fire raging since 9.50am on Wednesday in the Limassol state forest, between the villages of Vasas Kellakiou and Asgata, has been brought under ...

The Fire Service has responded to 43 incidents in the past 24 hours, of which 25 were fires, according to its spokesperson Andreas Kettis on Thursday in a post on the X platform. ...

Firefighters’ association Sypyk on Friday demanded the fire brigade pay its frontline employees an extra allowance due to the dangerous nature of their job. Sypyk chairman said the fire brigade ...

Trade union Oekdy-Sek on Wednesday expressed their satisfaction with the government’s decision to extend the forest firefighting season from six to eight months. The decision will also see several ...

Forestry college will restart diploma courses in September 2024 The forestry college will recommence its regular diplomas courses from September 2024, nine years after they ceased but the educational institution has not ...

Three fire engines rushed to a house in Limassol after a fire broke out in the ground floor sauna on Friday morning. The owners of the Moutayiaka house noticed the ...

The second team of Cypriots who had been sent to Greece to aid in the fight against the country’s wildfires are due to return to the island on Friday ...

A second team of firefighters departed from Larnaca airport for Thessaloniki at 1pm on Friday to assist the Greek authorities in their efforts against wildfires. Comprising 28 individuals, the mission is ...

Another Cypriot firefighting team will be leaving for Greece on Friday to deal with forest fires that have burned large areas of the country, fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said ...

The Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece relocated to a “large and dangerous” front in Evros on Sunday. The 31-member team travelled to Alexandroupolis on Sunday together with the Special Forest ...

Three Jordanian Royal Air Force crews sent to Cyprus to battle the recent fire in Limassol departed from the island on Thursday. Jordan had supplied the firefighters, as well as ...

Within the EU Cyprus has the third highest ratio of professional firefighters to the size of the workforce, according to data just released by Eurostat. The data concerns the year 2022. ...

The Cypriot forestry department team deployed to Greece to help fight the raging fires returned to the island on Tuesday. The crew was welcomed at Larnaca airport by dignitaries including ...

The Cypriot mission assisting firefighters battling wildfires in Greece will remain there at least until Thursday, the member of the Cypriot mission and Senior Forestry Officer, Stavros Mouchlis, said on ...

There is no information about the exact number of Cypriots in Rhodes, where a wildfire has been raging for six days, said the director of consular affairs at the foreign ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday paid tribute to a young firefighter killed while battling a forest blaze in British Columbia, as wildfires continue to rage across the ...

Firefighters rushed to battle a blaze that broke out at around 1.40pm in the courtyard of a Polemidia residence in Limassol. The courtyard was shared with three other residences. Thankfully, ...

Firefighters responded to three wildfires between 1pm and 3pm on Friday, according to Fire Service spokesperson Andreas Kettis. In a post published on Twitter, Kettis reassured that all three fires, ...

A Larnaca firefighter is receiving precautionary treatment in hospital after rocks fell on him while rescuing a dog from a well. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis stated that such open ...

The fire services on Friday completed an exercise in the Vasiliko area on Friday, according to spokesman Andreas Kettis. The scenario involved a fire at one of the liquid gas ...

Cyprus has the second highest percentage of professional firefighters in the EU, according to a study published on Tuesday by Eurostat, covering data from 2021. According to the study, 365,100 people were ...

Bills to employ volunteer forest firefighters and 300 guards to monitor the Green Line for migrant crossings could be voted through before parliament closes for the summer, the Cyprus News Agency ...

US Ambassador in Cyprus Judith Garber delivered Thursday 21 specialised breathing masks for firefighters during a ceremony at the fire service headquarters in Nicosia. The embassy said that, to both commemorate ...