Sources: NBC
At least ten firefighters and rescue workers are killed and 14 others are injured in a wildfire in Eskişehir Province, Turkey. 2025-07-23
Wildfires rage out of control in at least 100 different locations throughout Israel and the West Bank, prompting the Israeli government to declare a state of emergency and forcing evacuations near Jerusalem. At least 40 people are reportedly injured due to the fires. 2025-04-30
The number of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest reaches its highest number in fourteen years at 38,266 fire hotspots as a result of an ongoing drought in South America. 2024-09-1
Around one thousand people are evacuated in Castile and León, Spain, as a wildfire spreads across the region. 2021-08-16
The death toll from wildfires in southern Turkey rises to eight. Thousands of tourists are evacuated from Bodrum by the Coast Guard Command as the fires close in on the port city. 2021-08-1
Bashar Barakah Jackson, also known as ‘Pop Smoke’, is killed in Los Angeles, United States. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, inflicted by a teenager during a targeted home invasion that went wrong. Pop Smoke was a rising rapper from Brooklyn, and had just released his second mixtape ‘Meet the Woo 2’. He rented an apartment in the Hollywood Hills a few days prior to his murder for a simple vacation. The day before his homicide, he accidentally leaked his address online via social media, giving the location to it’s murderers, which tragically ended his life the age of 20 years old.2020-02-19
A wildfire destroys 25 homes, displaces 100,000 people and burns over 7,500 acres of forest in and around Los Angeles. 2019-10-11
Wildfires continue to spread in the U.S. state of California. 2013-05-3
Ammar Harris, a suspect wanted in connection with a shooting and following car crash that killed three people and wounded five others on the Las Vegas Strip, is detained in Los Angeles, California. 2013-02-28
A wildfire destroys at least 118,500 acres and destroys over 700 homes in Central Texas since Saturday with two deaths. 2011-09-6