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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Climate
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Greek residents defend homes as wildfire tears through village
STORY: :: Residents stay to defend their homes as wildfire tears through a Greek village :: Kryoneri, Greece :: July 26, 2025 :: Maria Papadomanolaki, Local resident "At this moment, if we had left our house, it would have burned completely. Like the other time, when we left because we were scared. Today we stayed, because in seconds the fire was to our right, to our left, all around us, it surrounded us. And we were shouting to put the fire out, our house is burning, you understand? We would have been left without a home. We must be grateful to the volunteers and the fire service because they rushed immediately, I can't say otherwise. But we are very lucky." Residents of nearby village Kryoneri were instructed by authorities to leave towards Athens. Helicopters were dropping water in the area where factories with flammable material are located, and 145 firefighters battled the flames, assisted with 44 vehicles, 7 helicopters and ten aircrafts. According to information from the Greek ambulance services, five people have been taken to hospitals from the fire front in Attica so far.
BBC News
22-07-2025
- BBC News
East Belfast: Man released following arrest after officer scalded
A man who was arrested in connection to an incident involving a knife, during which an officer was scalded, has been released on officer suffered injuries to his chest and chin after a liquid was thrown over him as he tried to arrest a man in Coates Row in east Belfast on police had received a report from the fire service of a man armed with a knife inside an apartment when they were responding to a report of a fire. A 35-year-old man had been arrested at the scene, but has now been released on bail to allow for further enquiries.
BBC News
09-07-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Bonfire warning after fire spreads to three Wormingford gardens
A fire service has issued a warning about lighting bonfires during the hot spell after a blaze got out of control and spread to three County Fire and Rescue Service were called to Wormingford, Colchester, after reports of trees and shrubs on manager Nick Singleton said: "When we arrived the bonfire had spread through some dry conifers, along hedgerow and into three gardens. When burning bonfires, weather conditions are important. If it's hot, dry and windy - we'd advise not to burn bonfires."It only takes an ember to get picked up by wind and for a fire to spread." The fire service advises anyone planning a bonfire to site it well away from houses, garages, sheds, fences, overhead cables - as well as trees and says never to leave a bonfire unattended and make sure stacks are must be kept supervised around planned fires - and the fire service also warned people not to use flammable liquids to light fires, or burn foam-filled furniture, paint or aerosols. Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
08-07-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Greece heatwave closes the Acropolis temporarily
The Acropolis closed temporarily on Tuesday as soaring temperatures continue to grip popular site in the capital city of Athens was shutting from 13:00-17:00 local time (10:00-14:00 GMT), the country's culture ministry of 42C (107F) are forecast for parts of the European country on Tuesday and a category four wildfire warning, signalling a very high risk, is in place in several comes as wildfires were reported in other parts of the continent, including France and Spain's Catalonia region, weeks after they were hit by a deadly early summer heatwave. Changes to the Acropolis' opening hours were announced on Monday after extreme heat returned to Greece on closure on Tuesday - with highs of 38C expected in the city - is not the first time extreme heat has shut the popular attraction - having done so in June and last said the closure was for the "the safety of workers and visitors" at the site, which is visited by tens of thousands of people every day, totalling 4.5m in country's labour ministry has also imposed a mandatory five-hour work stoppage for manual, outdoor workers between 12:00-17:00 on Tuesday in the areas set to see the worst current heatwave is due to continue into Wednesday, with forecasts of 40-42C for southern parts of the country, before starting to break on 41 wildfires broke out across Greece on Monday, according to the country's fire service. Of those, 34 were contained early while seven remained active into Monday evening.A Category 4 wildfire warning was issued late on Monday for five regions: Attica, the Peloponnese, central Greece, Thessaly and western public was urged to remain vigilant and emergency services were on high alert, the country's civil protection more than 1,000 fire fighters were tackling a wildfire in southwestern France early on Tuesday. Residents near the town of Narbonne evacuated their homes, and a motorway linking France and Spain was Catalonia, more than 2,000 people were under lockdown early on Tuesday as a wildfire that broke out on Sunday continued to rage in the eastern province of Tarragona, according to local of western and southern Europe was hit by a scorching early summer heatwave, which saw thousands evacuated, and homes and business are becoming more common due to human-caused climate change, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate has said hot weather will happen more often - and become even more intense - as the planet continues to warm.
The Independent
06-07-2025
- The Independent
Eurostar chaos as passengers complain of ‘slowly boiling alive' on halted train
Eurostar passengers were left stranded on a train for over five hours after it broke down in France. Customers travelling from Brussels to London on the Eurostar on Sunday took to social media to describe the chaos onboard - with some saying they had no working toilets or proper ventilation. Eurostar said the train broke down due to a power failure, and told passengers reaching out to them on social media they were sending a replacement train to complete the final leg of their journey. One passenger wrote: 'Stuck on the @Eurostar for 4.5 hours, stationary. Toilets full, electricity off & absolutely slowly boiling alive The fire service made it on with some first aiders, but still no official announcement for 3 hrs. They tweeted there would be a replacement train at 1:30, no sign.' According to the Eurostar website, the train left Brussels at 8:52am local time, and was due to arrive at London's St Pancras International at 9:57am. But six hours on from their scheduled arrival time, passengers were still stuck between Lille and Calais. Pictures shared to social media shows passengers leaning out of the door to get fresh air, before they were evacuated onto the tracks as they await their replacement train. One person on board wrote on X: 'There's no communication. No air. No toilets. Just absolute chaos. This is baffling. Accidents happen, but this a live failure of management. Spectacularly bad service.' Another passenger said: '@eurostar 1 word incompetent, from a passenger on train 9117 from Brussels to London.. no energy without water for the toilets or food, regretting traveling here.' Some passengers in a lighter mood began playing guitars and singing a song titled 'home' as people disembarked the train. It appears the replacement train arrived at around 3pm UK time. A Eurostar spokesperson said: 'Earlier today, Eurostar train 9117, travelling from Brussels to London, came to a standstill between Lille and Calais due to a power failure, leaving the train without onboard electricity. 'To provide passengers with some comfort during the delay, train doors were opened to allow fresh air to circulate, and water was distributed. 'A rescue train was promptly dispatched from Brussels to carry out a complex transfer operation. This process, supported by local authorities and SNCF Réseau personnel on site, is taking longer than anticipated and is still ongoing.' They added Eurostar will offer all affected customers either a full cash refund or 300 per cent of the ticket value in the form of an e-voucher. The incident comes just weeks after thousands of passengers had their Eurostar journeys cancelled after two days of disruption led to 'chaos' on the high-speed line. Customers were warned on 25 June to delay or cancel their journeys after 600m of cable was stolen on the high-speed line near Lille, France, cancelling the journeys of more than 5,000 people. It came after passengers faced long delays the evening before, when two people were hit by trains on the network. Thousands were affected by the chaos which brought journeys between London and Paris to a standstill.
