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Greece further reinforces firefighting forces in massive wildfire in northeast burning for 13th day

Greek authorities have further reinforced firefighting forces in the country’s northeast, where a massive blaze in its thirteenth day has flared up once more, triggering authorities to issue alerts to residents in the area to be on standby for possible evacuation

The Independent UK

Australia headed for hot and dry spring after unseasonably warm winter

Most of the country likely to experience ‘unusually warm days’ but Bureau of Meteorology has yet to declare an El Niño

The Guardian - AU

California prison on generator power after wildfires knock out electricity and fill cells with smoke

A Northern California prison was on generator power for a second week and inmates were issued masks to cope with unhealthy air after wildfires knocked out electricity and choked the remote region with smoke

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Hawaii crews near end of search for fire victims but death toll remains unclear

At least 115 people confirmed dead and more than 100 missing, as officials move into new phase of removing hazardous waste

The Guardian - US

First hurricanes, now wildfire: Louisiana parish takes on a new climate disaster

The Tiger Island fire took residents by surprise, but they improvised bulldozers into fire engines and got to work

The Guardian - US

Unclear how many in Lahaina lost lives as Hawaii authorities near the end of their search for dead

Crews in Hawaii have all but finished searching for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, and it is unclear how many people perished

The Independent UK

‘Stupid and dangerous’: Meta’s news ban fuels anger amid Canada wildfires

Experts say impasse over contentious Canadian law should make media outlets rethink reliance on social media platforms.

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Greece blaze burning for 11 days is ‘largest wildfire ever recorded in EU’

The blaze has been blamed for 20 of the 21 wildfire-related deaths in Greece last week

Evening Standard

Greece wildfire largest ever recorded in the EU and showing no sign of slowing down

Officials said wind could cause the flames to spread even further

The Independent UK

Massive wildfire in northeastern Greece persists for 11th day despite European firefighting efforts

A massive wildfire is burning unabated in northeastern Greece for the 11th day despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft

The Independent UK

Hawaii power utility takes responsibility for first fire on Maui, but faults county firefighters

Hawaii’s electric utility acknowledged its power lines started a wildfire on Maui but faulted county firefighters for declaring the blaze contained and leaving the scene, only to have a second wildfire break out nearby and become the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century

The Independent UK

Today’s bushfires are off-the-scale bad. The only safe option is to leave before they start

In the early 2000s, our safety plan was to stay and defend. But catastrophic fires since have drastically changed the thinking

The Guardian - AU

To stop wildfires, residents in some Greek suburbs put their own money toward early warning drones

Residents in leafy suburb of the Greek capital have united this summer to prevent the nightmare of towering, deadly wildfires from reaching their homes

The Independent UK

Greece reinforces firefighting forces to tackle massive blaze in the country's northeast

Greek authorities have reinforced firefighting forces in the northeastern part of the country where a massive deadly wildfire was burning for a 10th day with no signs of abating

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Some wildfire evacuations end in British Columbia, but fire threatens community farther north

The wildfire situation has showed some improvement in British Columbia, with more people being allowed to return to their homes over the weekend, but blazes continue to threaten communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories

WEKU

Lahaina wants closure. Authorities plead for patience

Search and recovery teams say the work to identify human remains in Lahaina is grueling and complicated by the fact that the fire burned so hot, even just making a positive ID is difficult.

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The Week in Detail: Sex ed, wildfires, and migrant exploitation

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

The Guardian - US

Louisiana residents told to ‘get out now’ in face of sweeping wildfire

Nearly 1,000 people in Merryville, in Beauregard parish close to Texas border, ordered to evacuate as Tiger Island fire burns nearby

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Q&A: Maui wildfires ‘an acceleration of injustices’ long felt on island

Al Jazeera speaks to Kaniela Ing, director of Green New Deal Network, about devastating Hawaii blazes and what’s next.

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Satellite imagery captures wildfires breaking across Greece (photo)

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites are monitoring changes in the fire to aid civil protection and humanitarian response.

The Independent UK

Minister calls out ‘arsonist scum’ as 79 arrested over Greece wildfires

‘You will not get away with it, we will find you, you will be held accountable,’ climate minister vows

The Guardian - US

Hawaii officials release list of 388 people missing after Maui wildfires

Fema teams with cadaver dogs scour rubble of the town as 46 victims so far identified of death toll of 115

WEKU

Maui officials release 388 names of people unaccounted for in Maui fire

The names were released after Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said the FBI was working to "un-duplicate" people who were reported missing.

Al Jazeera

Deaths in Greece wildfires highlight the plight of asylum seekers

Firefighters find 18 burned bodies in Dadia Forest, suspected to be asylum seekers, as wildfires ravage northern Greece.

The Guardian - UK

Firefighters in Greece tackle more than 200 wildfires in 48 hours

Temperature records broken in France and red alerts issued in Italy as late summer heatwave continues in southern Europe

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