Hundreds of hectares of Turkey’s woodland were set alight by the PKK last week. But this is not the first time the terror group has been linked to such wildfires.
Temperatures in some parts of Spain are expected to soar past 43 degrees Celsius as other western European countries also wilt under the sweltering heat.
Temperatures soared in Spain amid European heatwave, causing wildfire to devour land as hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze through the night.
The claims, so far, fall short of the record $12 billion in wildfire-related insured losses sustained in California in 2017.
Residents of communities charred by a Los Angeles-area fire stacked sandbags as they prepared for possible downpours that threaten to unleash runoff from hillsides left barren by flames.
Ryan Zinke says lawsuits from environmental groups against cutting down trees has made it hard to manage forests. The state's deadliest ever wildfires have killed at least 81 people, and nearly one thousand others are still listed as missing.
Hours after Trump surveyed the devastation in the town of Paradise, authorities raised the death toll to 76 and warned people being let back into previously evacuated areas to watch out for any remains.
The deadliest fires in California history are still burning, and the destruction continues. The Camp Fire, in the north of the US state, is now one of the most lethal in the country since the turn of the last century.
Additional remains of people killed by northern California wildfire, also known as the Camp Fire, recovered, making it the deadliest wildland blaze in state's history, Sheriff Kory Honea says.
Fourteen more bodies were found in and around Paradise where at least 6,700 homes and businesses have been destroyed.
Fast-moving wildfires dubbed "camp fire" have so far killed at least 9 people and destroyed thousands of structures in northern California.
Nine people were found dead in and around the northern California town of Paradise, where more than 6,700 homes and businesses were burned down by the 90,000-acre Camp Fire, the state's most destructive on record, authorities say.
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