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PORT DICKSON: A fire believed to have been caused by a series of explosions at the Tenaga Nasional's Tuanku Ja'afar power station here has been put out.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Maritime rescue services and firefighters in Germany's Baltic Sea have extinguished a fire on an oil tanker and brought the vessel safely into the port of Rostock, the city authorities said on Saturday.
KYIV (Reuters) - Firefighters in Ukraine's southern region of Odesa have extinguished a sweeping blaze that had threatened a grain warehouse, the state emergency service said on Monday.
MIRI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has deployed its Bombardier CL-415 aircraft to support the Fire and Rescue Department to carry out a water-bombing operation to extinguish peat fires in the Sungai Adong area since Wednesday (March 27).
Wildfires that broke out over the weekend across southern parts of South Korea left 10 casualties and over 1,500 residents evacuated from their homes, according to authorities.
South Korean authorities said Monday they would deploy dozens of helicopters and thousands of firefighters and soldiers as they struggle to control multiple wildfires in the southeast, which have been burning for days.
KUANTAN: The forest and pineapple plantation fire near Kampung Cenderawasih, Pekan since March 7 has increased to 113ha compared to 94ha on Wednesday, said Pahang Fire and Rescue Department director Mohd Razam Taja Rahim.
KAJANG:The forest fire at Broga Hill which began late Sunday evening was fully extinguished early Monday (March 18) morning.
BOGOR, Indonesia (Reuters) - A massive fire at an ammunition depot near Indonesia's capital was extinguished early on Sunday and the military was sweeping nearby residential areas to collect materials that had possibly flown out during explosions, a military official said.
PASIR GUDANG: The Fire and Rescue Department has extinguished a fire that broke out at a palm oil processing factory in Jalan Besi 2 in the Pasir Gudang Industrial Area, here.
ROUEN, France (Reuters) -Firefighters extinguished a blaze at Rouen's historic cathedral in northern France on Thursday to the relief of locals who had feared a repeat of the catastrophic Notre-Dame fire in Paris when they saw dark smoke rising from its spire.
KOTA TINGGI: The Fire and Rescue Department has managed to extinguish half of the fire at a landfill in Sungai Rengit.
(Reuters) - A fire broke out at the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia's southern Krasnodar region and was extinguished in about two hours, regional authorities said on Friday, but gave no details of what caused the fire or its impact on the refinery's output.
Rain and cooler temperatures are helping South Korean fire crews as they battle the country's worst-ever wildfires on Friday, as the governor of the hardest-hit region called for overhauling response strategies to respond to the climate crisis that he says worsened the disaster.
Wildfires raging in the country doubled in size yesterday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the nation's worst natural fire disaster with at least 26 people killed and historic temples incinerated.
BEIRUT, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Five Syrian siblings died from suffocation and three paramedics were injured on Thursday in a fire that broke out in the Al-Mina area of Tripoli, Lebanon, according to Civil Defense sources.
KOTA KINABALU: Firefighters from the Kota Kinabalu and Lintas Fire Stations had to make a 1km before they could put out a fire in Kampung Saga, Menggatal, near here.
ANDONG, South Korea (Reuters) -Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst natural fire disaster with at least 27 people killed and historic temples incinerated.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) will investigate the AirAsia flight which made an emergency landing after an engine caught fire mid-flight on Wednesday night (March 26).
ANDONG, South Korea: Wildfires in South Korea are now "the largest on record" having burned more forest than any previous blaze, the country's disaster chief said Thursday (March 27), as the death toll rose to 26.
