#wildfire

EAC cables were responsible for several fires that broke out in recent weeks, with the forestry department saying that whilst the situation has vastly improved, the electricity network was responsible ...

A total of 2.9 hectares of land were burned in fires across the island over the past 24 hours, the fire service said on Tuesday. The service responded to 19 fire-related calls between ...

Nearly four in ten compensation applications for damage to property sustained in last year’s devastating Limassol wildfire have been rejected, according to information made public on Monday. The data ...

A wildfire which broke out in the Ayia Anna area of Larnaca on Wednesday afternoon was brought fully under control after burning around six hectares of vegetation, the forestry department ...

The risk of forest fires on Sunday has been set at “red alert”, the forestry department said on Saturday. Alongside the setting of the fire risk level, the department also ...

Weeks before a devastating wildfire broke out on the power grid of a private wind farm in southern Greece in late July, nearby residents received a stark warning of the ...

Rain over eastern Belgium on Monday morning aided firefighters battling to contain the country’s biggest wildfire on record, which had threatened to reach the German border. Wildfires have ripped ...

A forest fire in Oikos Marathasas was brought under control almost immediately on Monday morning after a local resident used the community’s fire protection system to tackle the blaze. ...

Firefighters battled with the aid of Dutch helicopters on Sunday to contain Belgium’s biggest wildfire, which has already burned 3,000 hectares of land and which local authorities said was heading ...

The European Union deployed three helicopters and two water bomber aircraft to tackle a record wildfire in eastern Belgium, the bloc’s crisis commissioner said on Saturday, after Belgium requested ...

A fire which broke out near the village of Kato Moni on Saturday afternoon was brought under control within 20 minutes, the forestry department said. The fire broke out at around 2.35...

The police investigation into the wildfire at Kalo Chorio in the Larnaca district has been completed, with the case file expected to be forwarded to the legal service in the ...

Safety in aerial firefighting missions should be the top priority and continuously improved, aviation expert Chrysanthos Hadjichrysanthou said following a recent firefighting helicopter accident in Greece in which two people ...

State support for victims of the 2025 wildfires reached €23.2 million by June 30, representing 41 per cent of the government’s €56.1 million recovery package, according to figures released by the General Accounting Office ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday expressed the Cyprus parliament’s solidarity with Greece as devastating wildfires continue to rage across several parts of the country. In a letter to ...

Cyprus stands ready to offer Greece’s authorities “whatever they want” as the country battles ongoing wildfires in the west of its Attica region, fire brigade chief Nikos Longinos said ...

Cyprus stands “ready to assist” Greece in its fight against wildfires which are continuing to rage in the west of the Attica region, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday, after ...

Greece battled wildfires on Friday on multiple fronts, from the outskirts of Athens to the central part of the country and on the island of Crete, while France and Spain ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas “did not care about the truth” of the fire which broke out at a firing range near the Larnaca district village of Kalo Chorio on Monday, ...

A total of five hectares of dry grass, wild vegetation, waste materials and large piles of rubbish were burned in the fire that broke out in Arsos on Thursday. Community ...

The investigation into the wildfire that erupted following a military exercise at the Kalo Chorio firing range has widened to examine decisions taken at the highest levels of the National ...

By late afternoon on Thursday firefighters brought under control a blaze that had broken out near the Limassol village of Arsos. The flames had spread through dry grass from a ...

Fire brigade chief Nikos Longinos on Thursday offered his condolences to his Greek counterpart Theodoros Vagias after three Greek firefighters died while battling wildfires on the island of Crete. According ...

Three Greek firefighters died battling blazes during high winds on the island of Crete and the mainland as wildfires spread across Europe on Wednesday after days of devastating fires in ...