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Chilean firefighters were battling to hold back forest fires on Monday as authorities said hot and dry weather would continue this week, potentially exacerbating what are already the deadliest blazes in the country's recent history.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue service remains at the property, surveying the area to ensure that no further fires break out. No casualties have been reported as a result.

The government has declared a state of emergency in the southern region of Araucania, along with the Nuble and Biobio regions

A Buddhist temple has been extensively damaged by fire in the Australian city of Melbourne

Five-storey blaze at Springvale’s Bright Moon hall drew a crowd of onlookers, firefighters say

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 were cataclysmic: a landmark in Australia’s environmental history. They burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly forests in southeast Australia. Many of our most distinctive, ancient and vulnerable species were worst affected.

Firefighters battled dozens of raging wildfires in Chile on Sunday, seeking to gain control of one of the country's worst natural disasters in years as the death toll rose to at least 24 with nearly 1,000 more injured.

Eighty firefighters have battled a blaze that has damaged the Bright Moon Buddhist Temple in southeastern Melbourne.

A cargo train derailed in the midwestern United States, sparking a massive fire and triggering the release of small amounts of vinyl chloride, a hazardous chemical, officials said Saturday. No injuries or fatalities were reported after around 50 cars of the 140-car train came off the tracks late Friday near…

The flames looked to be in danger of spreading to a nearby wooden fence until firefighters got to the scene

Chile extended an emergency declaration to yet another region on Saturday as firefighters continued to struggle to control dozens of raging wildfires that have claimed at least 22 lives in the midst of a scorching heat wave that has broken records