The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Lord Macdonald warns of likely delays in criminal justice system as survivors denounce ‘arrogant’ building firms

As Britain absorbs the second phase of the report into the Grenfell Tower inferno, with its accumulation of horrors, an event last week serves as warning and a rebuke to the pace with which we have got here. Is it really possible, seven years after that disaster, that the cause…

Emergency crews have got the upper hand on a fire that approached homes in Sydney's southwest, after residents were told it was too late to leave.

The Atlantic island of Madeira has been on alert for high temperatures and risk of wildfires for days

Researchers say public health officials not doing enough to share warnings and safety information with health workers

California’s largest wildfire this year has been significantly tamed as the state’s initially fierce fire season has, at least temporarily, fallen into a relative calm

Thousands of firefighters are deployed as an all time record for acres burned – and it’s only August. Now some worry about the long months ahead

Fires have now ravaged neighbouring Turkey

Firefighters were battling a strong forest fire in Turkey's Aegean city of Izmir for a third day on Saturday, AFP reporters said, a day after hundreds of local people in nearby villages had to be evacuated.