The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

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

Three appliances were deployed to the "well-alight" bonfire in Faichem, near Fort Augustus, shortly before 5am.

Dozens of wildfires blazing though Chile caused the government to extend an emergency order to another region on Saturday, as a scorching summer heat wave complicates efforts to control fires that have claimed at least 23 lives so far.

An emergency bushfire warning has been downgraded for the suburb of Lake Coogee in Perth's south, while another blaze north of the city has burned through a shed.

Firefighters on WA's south coast knew they were in for a long night as wind took an approaching blaze over the top of them straight into the bush behind.

President Gabriel Boric cuts short vacation as heatwave fuels nearly 40 blazes across southern and central regions