South Korea contains main blazes in week-old wildfires
ANDONG, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korean authorities have contained the main blazes in the country's largest forest fire on record, a minister said on Friday, as rain and better weather allowed more helicopters to fly and dump water, dousing the flames.
Singapore man charged over fatal blaze after he allegedly used incompatible charger with PMD battery
SINGAPORE: A man has been charged with causing a death by performing a negligent act after he allegedly used an incompatible charger with a personal mobility device (PMD) battery.
Over 300 impounded vehicles at Thailand's Tak province customs lot destroyed in blaze
BANGKOK: More than 300 vehicles were damaged in a fire on Tuesday (March 18) night at an impound lot behind the customs checkpoint at the Second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot district of Tak province.
Blaze and eruption choke air travel
PETALING JAYA: Four Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flights to Britain were disrupted as international travel was thrown into chaos following incidents at two major airports on different sides of the world.
Inferno erupts at old factory on Jalan Patani, firefighters battling blaze
GEORGE TOWN: Fire and Rescue Department personnel and a volunteer firefighting squad are still putting out the fire that engulfed an old factory at Jalan Patani on Sunday (March 16).
Hip-hop gig blaze kills 51 at North Macedonia nightclub
A fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia early Sunday, killing 51 people, apparently after on-stage fireworks set the place ablaze, the country's interior minister said.
Couple and their toddler killed in residential blaze in central Philippines
A couple and their seven-year-old daughter were killed when a fire ripped through at least three homes in Iloilo City in the central Philippines at dawn on Saturday, authorities said.
2,000 firefighters deployed to tackle forest blaze
More than 2,000 firefighters are battling the country's biggest forest fire in three decades, officials said, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory.
Late-night building blaze kills eight in under an hour
A fire gutted a three-storey residential building in less than an hour in the Philippines' capital region, killing eight people, officials said.
Security guard saves cats, hamsters from Likas blaze that razed 80 houses
KOTA KINABALU: A kind-hearted security guard saved residents' cats and hamsters from perishing in a fire at Kampung Cempaka, Likas, on Saturday (March 1).
Govt mulls cloud seeding to tackle Kuantan peatland blaze
KUANTAN: The government will consider cloud seeding operations as an alternative measure to extinguish the fire at a coconut plantation along the Kuantan-Sungai Ular Bypass, says Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.
Nilai carpet factory razed in early morning blaze
NILAI: A massive blaze destroyed a carpet manufacturing factory at the Nilai 3 Industrial Area near here.
One person taken to hospital in hours-long warehouse blaze at 11 Kranji Crescent (update)
One person was taken to hospital for burn injuries and smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a recycling centre in Kranji on Wednesday (Feb 19).
Over 600 left homeless in Sabah blaze, Ramadan preparations up in smoke
KUALA LUMPUR: Just 18 days before his second birthday, Mohamad Ramadan Mohamad Riduan lost his family home to a fire that destroyed about 80 houses in Kampung Cempaka, a water village in Likas, early Saturday (March 1).
Blaze claims two in Penampang, search for missing victim ongoing
KOTA KINABALU: Two people were killed when a fire engulfed their home in Kampung Limbanak, Penampang, in the early hours of Saturday.
Six killed in construction site blaze
Six people were killed and more than two dozen were injured when a blaze ripped through a hotel construction site in the South Korean port city of Busan, the National Fire Agency said.
48,000 chickens lost to farm blaze
ALOR SETAR: Around 48,000 chickens perished after a poultry farm in Kampung Paya Muyud in Jitra was destroyed in a fire on Friday night.
Penang woman suffers panic attack during neighbourhood blaze
GEORGE TOWN: A senior citizen went through a terrifying ordeal when a fire broke out at her neighbour's wooden house in Jalan Kampung Jelutong here.
Over 40,000 chickens die in Jitra poultry farm blaze
ALOR SETAR: Around 48,000 chickens perished after a poultry farm in Kampung Paya Muyud in Jitra was destroyed in a fire on Friday night.
Five-storey Bangkok factory collapses after huge blaze
BANGKOK: A fire broke out at a five-storey factory in Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district on Friday (Jan 31), causing part of the building to collapse.
