Help victims of forest fires with lemonade? It works, a five-year-old demonstrated it with “Lemonade for Lahaina”. Edison Juel is doing great things with his fundraiser. – Instagram / @amijean2 Ad the essentials in brief Edison Juel started a fundraising campaign for the victims of the forest fires in Hawaii. The five-year-old stood on the … Read more
23 million euros precisely for five departments: Landes, Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne and Charente-Maritime. Thus, more than 9 million additional euros will be allocated to the fight against forest fires in the Gironde department. The SDIS will be able to buy 54 vehicles with this money. That of Lot-et-Garonne will be able to acquire 9 machines … Read more
EPA Firefighters in Alexandroupolis NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 19:40 Firefighters in Greece are still battling multiple wildfires. The heat, drought and strong winds make it difficult for emergency services to get the fires under control. The forest fire in the vicinity of the city of Alexandroupolis in northeastern Greece is currently the largest. According to Euro Commissioner … Read more
Nineteen-year-old Noah Tomkinson and his thirteen-year-old brother Mailo decided to leave their home in Lahaina with their mother because the wildfires were moving too fast towards their home. At first, the family fled in a car, but then decided to change their escape tactics because the traffic jams prevented them from moving forward. All three … Read more
Oprah Winfrey lives partly on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Photo: carrie-nelson/ImageCollect Oprah Winfrey lives partly on the Hawaiian island of Maui and is now helping out after the forest fires there. In an emergency shelter, she distributed donations that she previously bought herself. Share this article Oprah Winfrey (69) is helping in Hawaii after … Read more
AFPA burned down forest in the Colera region, close to the Spanish-French border NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 14:53 Thousands of hectares of forest were destroyed by fires in Spain and Portugal this weekend, the DPA news agency reports. In western Portugal, 6,200 hectares had burned this morning, according to authorities. The forest fires in Portugal are particularly … Read more
NOS | Frank Renout Burnt-out car wreck near Bordeaux NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 19:29 Frank Renout correspondent France Frank Renout correspondent France In order to contain forest fires and to save houses, a strip of 50 meters must be ‘shrub-free’ between French houses and forests. At least that’s what the law says. In practice, this does not … Read more
NOS | Frank Renout Burnt-out car wreck near Bordeaux NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 19:29 Frank Renout correspondent France Frank Renout correspondent France In order to contain forest fires and to save houses, a strip of 50 meters must be ‘shrub-free’ between French houses and forests. At least that’s what the law says. In practice, this does not … Read more
In Kleinmachnow near Berlin, the forest burned on Whit Monday. The smoke reduced visibility on the nearby freeway. Several smaller forest fires broke out in Brandenburg at Pentecost. A large burning pile of wood triggered a forest fire near Kleinmachnow in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district near Berlin. The burning area is between 100 and 200 square … Read more
Major fire on the German border: there is a fire in a Czech national park. Memories of a disastrous fire in the past year quickly come to mind. On Ascension Day, a forest fire broke out in the Czech National Park Bohemian Switzerland near the border with Saxony. Emergency services were able to bring the … Read more