#wildfire

Collection of wildfire news, found 103 news.

343 hectares of Mount Ciremai forest area gutted

A fire destroyed 343 hectares of forest area, home to the edelweiss flower, in Mount Ciremai Kuningan District, West ...

Pontianak residents exposed to thick smoke from wildfire

Several residents of Pontianak, the capital city of West Kalimantan Province, are left with no choice but to inhale the ...

Haze in Palangka Raya causes temporary closure of schools

The Palangka Raya Education Office in Central Kalimantan Province temporarily closed schools owing to haze arising from ...

Joint team combs Mount Sumbing to ensure fire completely doused

A joint team is conducting a thorough search of Mount Sumbing in Wonosobo District, Central Java Province, to ensure ...

Huge fire ravages forest area of Kota Batu's Mt Panderman

A huge wildfire ravaged forest area on the slope of Mount Panderman in Kota Batu, East Java, on Sunday evening but the ...

Central Kalimantan needs helitanker to support aerial firefighting

The Kotawaringin Timur Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) needs a helitanker to back its efforts to extinguish wildfires ...

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Asia-Pacific news agencies wage full-on war against fake news

Fake news has turned out to be the next wave of misinformation warfare in the digital era following the election of ...

Death toll hits 48 in California`s worst wildfire disaster

The remains of six more fire victims were found on Tuesday in a northern California town overrun by flames last week, ...

Prolonged drought triggers wildfires on mountains in Java

Some parts of Indonesia`s regions have entered the rainy season, while several others, such as Java and Nusa Tenggara ...

Wildfire on Mt Merbabu slope extinguished

A joint team comprising military and police officers as well as volunteers, among others, managed to extinguished a ...

Wildfires raze part of Mount Ciremai and Mount Slamet forest areas

Wildfires have razed parts of the forest areas on Mount Ciremai, located in Kuningan, West Java Province, and Mount ...

Wildfire razes part of Mt Sadran forest area

A forest area located on the slope of Mount Sadran in Broto Village, Slahung Sub-district, Ponorogo District, East ...

Fire razes 9.5-hectare forest area in Mt Sindoro, C Java

Efforts went on to extinguish a wildfire that has razed an area measuring 9.5 hectares in Mt Sindoro forest located in ...

Deadly California wildfire spreads as police report 17 people missing

Police in Northern California searched on Saturday for 17 people listed as missing two days after a deadly wildfire ...

Forest fire in Ogan Ilir forest extinguished

Commander of the Sriwijaya/Regional Military District II Major General Am Putranto has confirmed that a fire in the ...