A state of alert has been declared in Haskovo region because of 8 big wildfires which are difficult to put under control because of high temperatures and strong winds. Three houses have burnt down in Georgi Dobrevo village. In Oryahovo the fire..
The fires raging on the territory of Greece continue also today. One of the most affected places is the island of Rhodes, where the fire continues for the fifth day, as a result of which thousands of people were evacuated from coastal villages and..
More than 80 firefighters, forestry workers and Rila Nature Park staff have been fighting to put out two fires covering some 50 hectares of land . One of the fires in the higher reaches of the mountain has been localized. The other fire is under..
Despite the high temperatures and the strong wind today, there have been no signals for fires. Before BNR Blagoevgrad, the director of the Southwestern State Enterprise, Eng. Damyan Damyanov, clarified that the fire in the Republic of North Macedonia is..
The fires have been contained but this should not calm us down, as the risk exists, Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev said. Answering criticism that this country sent firefighters and equipment to the Republic of North Macedonia when..
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Bulgaria currently has only one helicopter for putting out forest fires, and two more helicopters will be available within ten days, Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev said in parliament today. For now, the fight against the disaster..
Two forest rangers from the Southwestern State Forestry Enterprise were killed while taking part in the efforts to extinguish the fire near Petrovo, Sandanski municipality, others have been injured. The wind probably turned around,..
For the sixth consecutive day in Haskovo, Southern Bulgaria, a temperature record was measured. At 2:40 pm the temperature reached 40.3 degrees Celcius in the shade . The record for August 2 until now was 38.5 degrees from 1965. Today a red code alert..
A disaster situation has been declared in the regions of Haskovo, Dimitrovgrad, Harmanli and Topolovgrad because of the fires raging there. “The fires have spread to large areas of forests and farmland. There were 247 fires yesterday, and..
