wildfires

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  • Chile 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.

  • Wildfires in forests down by 2% in month yr/yr 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.

  • Over $600,000 allocated to contain wildfire 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.

  • Khatibzadeh 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.

  • Wildfire burns 100,000 ha of forests, rangelands in 5 years 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.

  • Increased precipitation raises wildfire risk 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).

  • Budget to prevent wildfires up by 10-fold 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.

  • Wildfire in natural resources decreases by 49% 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.

  • Wildfire in Golestan National Park extinguished 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.