A rescue operation was carried out after a fisherman showed signs of a heart attack on a boat 240 kilometers off Rawson, the capital of Argentina’s Chubut province. Following the captain’s call for assistance, an Argentina navy rescue helicopter was dispatched to the scene. A stretcher suspended from the helicopter was used to evacuate the […]
After the air temperature exceeded 40 degrees in many parts of Portugal, forest fires broke out at 14 different points. Across the country, 501 vehicles and approximately 1,700 firefighters participated in the firefighting efforts. A huge forest fire that started in Ourem Municipality, north of the capital Lisbon, last week, flared up again due to […]
A forest fire in the Gironde region in southwest France has destroyed 1,500 hectares of land. Thousands of tourists were evacuated to safe areas. Gironde region administration stated that 4 aircraft and many firefighters from different regions intervened in the fire. The roads were closed to entrances and exits and hundreds of people were evacuated […]
The 14-kilometer beach in Hatay’s Samandag district has started to host green sea turtles and Caretta Carettas. After laying their eggs on the sandy beach they dug, the mother turtles return to the sea again. The egg laying of the turtles, which starts at night and continues until the light of the day, is also […]
The Popocatepetl Sky Bridge in Puebla, Mexico, sustained significant material damage yesterday after heavy rain and storm. The footage showed the bridge shaking like waves during the storm, causing the floor made out of glass fell from a height of 61 meters. Fortunately, no deaths or injuries were reported as a result of the incident. […]
Indian police seized an auto rickshaw, whose driver escaped after the police tried to stop the vehicle on the grounds that he was going too fast in the state of Utter Pradesh. The footage of the police has gone viral on social media, where a total of 27 people getting off the vehicle. Fatehpur Police […]
In the Indian state of Gujarat, at least 7 people died in the last 24 hours in the flood caused by heavy rains. The rains in the region will continue for a few more days, authorities warned citizens. A total of 27,896 people have been evacuated from the flood-affected areas and 18,825 of them remained […]
Spain began fighting forest fires as summer arrived. Due to wind and land drought, forest fires that started yesterday in Las Hurdes, a city in Caceres in the Extremadura region, have spread to Salamanca province. Hundreds of people were evacuated from the area. The Environment Department of Castile and Leon has declared a level 2 […]
Three people were injured during bull-running in San Fermin Festival in Spain. Hundreds of people participated the fifth bull-running event yesterday which was held on the 850-meter road in the narrow streets of historical city of Pamplona. One of the injured was Australian and the other two were Spanish, authorities said. One of the runners […]
The death toll rose to 33 after Russia targeted a 5-storey residential building in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on 9 July. “The body of a child was found during the ongoing search in the building in Chasiv Yar. During the rescue efforts, the dead bodies of 33 people have been found so far. 9 […]