#Fires

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 ...

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 ...

A 49-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday after having launched fireworks which caused a fire in the Ha Potami area, near the village of Kouklia. Paphos police’s ...

Wildfire management decisions were made on Tuesday during a high level meeting at the presidential palace ahead of the summer season, when fires increase. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the ...

The government on Tuesday announced two schemes to compensate farmers in Limassol district for damage to their property and crops during the fires that raged this August and September. Both ...

Agriculture minister Petros Xenofontos expressed his satisfaction with the progress of anti-flood works being undertaken by communities impacted by the fire which took place in the Limassol district last month. “...

President Nikos Christodoulides will host a meeting aimed at making decisions to prevent and deal with fires and floods in October, according to fire brigade chief Nikos Logginos. The meeting ...

By Koulla Michael Is it humans, is it nature, is it climate change? Wildfires have become a massive destroyer of natural areas. Every year is worse than the previous and ...

The Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece has been moved to a different area after battling fires in Parnitha until late at night on Friday. The 31-member team is now operating ...

A fire in a parked car after midnight on Friday morning resulted in extensive damages to the vehicle. According to the fire department, the car, parked in a garage in ...

Cyprus will be sending to aircraft to help battle fires in Alexandroupolis, Greece, Forestry Department spokesman Giorgos Constantinou said on Monday. Cyprus will be sending two air tractors. Four people ...

The fire department said on Monday that over the past three days from 6am on August 11 to 6am on Monday it had responded to 83 calls for help, 41 fires, 33 special services ...

The risk of wildfires in all forest areas remains extremely high on Wednesday, the Forestry Department announced. “The public is urged to be extremely careful and to completely avoid actions ...

Fire service spokesperson Andreas Kettis on Wednesday said that the three fires that had been extinguished in the Paphos district between Akoudralia and Steni “present common traits indicating malicious actions ...

Firefighters on Monday morning extinguished a dangerous blaze in the Nicosia village of Flasou that broke out at around 8.45am, bringing to an end a busy weekend. The Flasou fire ...

Firefighters and volunteers intensified their efforts early on Monday morning in Rhodes, following all-night battles with the flames. Monday marks the seventh day of fire extinction efforts and Cyprus had ...

Two firefighting aircraft departed Cyprus for Greece on Friday morning with the aim of helping to fight the country’s forest fires. The Air Tractor-type planes, which belong to the ...

Italy put 23 cities on red alert with temperatures set to reach up to 46 Celsius (114 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, one of the global hotspots as a wave of extreme heat, wildfires and ...

The fire service was called to extinguish two fires that broke out in Nicosia on Wednesday night. According to fire department spokesman, Andreas Kettis, the first fire broke out around 10.30...

Fires in Cyprus decreased by more than ten per cent in 2022, the fire services reported on Thursday. According to the data that they collected for 2022, there was a 12.62 per cent ...

Fires broke out in a house and a car at two different locations in Limassol in the early hours on Tuesday. The first fire broke out around 1am, in a ...