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2024-02-05 19:20
Chile forest fires claim over 100 lives
More than 100 people have been killed by forest fires in Chile's Valparaíso region, local authorities have said.
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2023-04-24 16:26
Wildfires in forests down by 2% in month yr/yr
TEHRAN – Wildfires in forests across the country have decreased by two percent in the first month of the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21) compared to the year before.
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2022-09-28 19:10
Over $600,000 allocated to contain wildfire
TEHRAN –A total budget of 170 billion rials (nearly $607,000) has been allocated to curb wildfire which has increased significantly in protected areas in the current Iranian calendar year, compared to previous years.
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2022-06-07 21:30
Iran offers condolences over deadly Bangladesh inferno
TEHRAN- The spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, conveyed condolences to the Bangladeshi government and people following a large fire at a container depot in a port city in southern Bangladesh, which claimed the lives of at least 49 people and wounded 100 others.
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2022-03-11 19:31
Wildfire burns 100,000 ha of forests, rangelands in 5 years
TEHRAN – Over 100,000 hectares of forests and rangelands have been burned by wildfire during the past five years, Mohammad Hassan Nami, head of the Disaster Management Organization, has said.
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2022-02-04 17:17
Increased precipitation raises wildfire risk
TEHRAN – Given that heavy snow and rainfall saturated the country over the past few months, plant and vegetation cover has been expanded which seems to be vulnerable to temperature rise, so wildfire risk increases during this summer (starting on May 22).
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2022-01-25 19:00
Budget to prevent wildfires up by 10-fold
TEHRAN – A total of 1 trillion rials (around $3.6 million) has been allocated to preventing and extinguishing wildfires in the budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year (starting March 21), a 10-fold rise compared to the current year.
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2021-12-25 17:32
Wildfire in natural areas decreases by 49%
TEHRAN – The occurrence of wildfire in natural areas has declined by 49 percent since the beginning of the current [Iranian calendar] year (March 21) compared to the same period last year, deputy commander of the protection unit of the Forests, Rangelands, and Watershed Management Organization, has said.
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2021-12-19 16:37
Wildfire in Golestan National Park extinguished
TEHRAN – A wildfire that had erupted on Friday in Golestan National Park was contained with the help of locals and environmentalists, IRIB reported on Sunday.
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2021-08-11 13:11
Week of wildfires wreaks havoc in Greece, force mass evacuations
The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Southern Europe, including Italy, is still being assessed.