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WATCH: Huge blaze rip through building site at Lanarkshire woodland

Piping and building materials appear to have been set alight deliberately

Daily Record

Wildfires break out across London as capital sizzles in new heatwave

Heavy ash fell on residents miles away from the origin of the wildfire

Evening Standard

Firefighters battle 100m grass fire in field behind Southmead homes

The blaze erupted just metres from the back gardens of houses on a quiet residential street

Bristol Post

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30 homes saved as firefighters tackle west London blaze

About 60 people were evacuated from their homes due to the amount of smoke.

The Independent UK

Lightning strikes ignite cluster of Northern California wildfires

LOS ANGELES — A cluster of fires burning in steep and dry terrain in Northern California has spread to more than 1,100 acres, forcing evacuations in rural areas of Trinity and Humboldt counties.

Los Angeles Times

Fire crews race to East Lothian field as huge blaze spreads across farmland

Emergency crews arrived on the scene in Musselburgh near the Edenhall hospital shortly before 4pm after the fire quickly took hold.

Edinburgh Live

Firefighters battle wildfire on Croatian island after man dies

Croatian water-bomber planes joined dozens of firefighters on Sunday to help contain a wildfire that killed one man on the Adriatic island of Hvar, Croatian media reported.

Reuters

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Feltham fire: Firefighters ‘save 30 homes’ from woodland blaze in west London

The smoke could be seen by passengers on planes about to land at nearby Heathrow Airport

The Independent UK

Around 30 homes saved as firefighters take on Feltham inferno sweeping across grassland

Dozens of locals were evacuated from their homes as firefighters took on a huge wildfire raging across west London grassland.

Evening Standard

Brits warned against barbecues as fire destroys multiple gardens and damages 15 homes

Firefighters from Essex County Fire and Rescue Service battled a fierce blaze in Chelmsford, with around 15 homes damaged and 40 residents evacuated on Saturday evening

Daily Mirror

‘Fire-breathing dragon clouds’: a wildfire-fueled phenomenon explained

Feared pyrocumulonimbus clouds, akin to fire-triggered thunderstorms, are becoming more frequent as blazes rage

The Guardian - US

Wildfires are destroying California's forest carbon credit reserves-study

Carbon offsets generated from forests to counteract future climate-warming emissions from California's big polluters are rapidly being depleted as trees are ravaged by wildfire and disease, new research published on Friday suggests.

Reuters

Berlin munitions dump blaze still active as explosion risk impedes fire crews

Emergency services have stopped a fire at an ammunitions dump in a western Berlin forest from spreading further, but fire crews on Friday were still unable to approach the source of the blaze due to the risk that World War Two bombs might explode.

Reuters

Berlin forest fire contained but ammo dump still a problem

A fire accompanied by explosions at a police ammunition dump in a Berlin forest has been contained and large parts of it have been extinguished, but authorities are still waiting to get access to the dump itself

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The Guardian - UK

Series of explosions hamper attempts to tackle Berlin forest fire

Firefighters struggle to contain blaze that began at munitions site used to store second world war bombs

Al Jazeera

Berlin forest fire triggered by WWII ammunition dump blasts

Explosions at a WWII bomb disposal site ignited a blaze in one of Berlin’s biggest city forests.

The Independent UK

Huge fire breaks out in Berlin forest after explosions at bomb disposal site

Authorities have called for the army to support efforts to tackle the blaze

The Independent UK

Fire triggered by explosions spreads in Berlin city forest

A large fire has broke out in one of Berlin’s biggest forests, triggered by several explosions that took place at an ammunition dump inside the forest

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Daily Mirror

Apocalyptic wildfires spread through Spain as images show extent of raging inferno

Regional authorities in Spain have blamed 'heartless people' for deliberately starting fires after 1,360 acres of land were set alight on Wednesday, resulting in the closure of major roads

Daily Mirror

Apocalyptic scenes as out of control wildfire sends huge orange flames over road

Massive orange flames can be seen roaring across a road in Texas with firefighters in the foreground in dramatic footage as wildfire rips through an 800 acre area with the majority out of control

WEKU

Four people have died in Northern California's huge wildfire

The death toll doubled when two additional bodies were found within the burn zone of the McKinney Fire, the state's largest blaze of the year.

The Guardian - US

Death toll rises to four in California’s biggest wildfire this year

McKinney fire has burned more than 100 buildings in north of state as other blazes ignite in US west

Tribune News Service

Yosemite fire: Why giant sequoia trees are surviving now when others died in recent fires

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Last year and the year before, in an unprecedented environmental disaster, wildfires in California’s Sequoia National Park and nearby national forests roared through treasured sequoia groves in the Southern Sierra Nevada, generating flames hundreds of feet high and killing nearly 20% of all the ancient…

The Guardian - US

With Yosemite’s giant sequoias at risk, firefighters place hope in prescribed burns

Treatments conducted well ahead of time may help limit damage from Washburn fire

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Environmentalists don’t like prescribed fires. Irony is that may save Yosemite’s sequoias

The initial news accounts sounded so similar to past years that they were almost repetitive: A wildfire had broken out in a national park and was burning in heavy brush and forest thick with dead and downed trees.

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