The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

People living in Hamburg, Germany, were told to close their windows, turn off ventilation and air conditioning after a huge fire broke out in the Rothenburgsort district at 4.30am on Sunday

Paragliders were seen above the blaze while smoke billowed for miles

The blaze tore through 500 square metres of marshland

The fire destroyed a large patch of marshland in the beauty spot

The lush region of Asturias in northern Spain was ravaged by more than 90 wildfires on Friday, most of them believed to have been started by arsonists whom the region's leader called "fire terrorists".

(This March 30 story has been refiled to remove incorrect temperature conversion in paragraph 7)

LOS ANGELES — For most Californians, the sight of aircraft spewing neon pink liquid over flaming trees and brush has become a hallmark of aggressive wildfire suppression campaigns — if not a potent symbol of government's struggle to control increasingly destructive forest fires.

Firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain

The parish volunteer who started a fire that severely damaged the 15th Century Gothic cathedral in the western French city of Nantes in 2020 has been sentenced to four years in prison for arson.