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Fire Can’t Stop the Music: Tomorrowland Festival Reopens with New Stage

This is Beirut, 18/07 22:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Belgium's Tomorrowland, one of the world's largest electronic music festivals, opened its doors as planned on Friday, after the event was thrown into doubt by a fire that destroyed its main stage. Organizers said an "alternative setup" was put in place to replace the "beloved main stage" that went up in flames on Wednesday. The causes of the ...

Iraq Shopping Mall Fire Kills at Least 60

This is Beirut, 17/07 15:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Iraq Kut Fire Shopping Mall

A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said Thursday as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives. Officials said many people suffocated in bathrooms, while one person told AFP his five relatives died in an elevator. The blaze -- the latest ...

France Wildfire Shuts Down Marseille Airport and Halts Trains

This is Beirut, 08/07 22:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Fire France Marseille

A wildfire in southern France on Tuesday forced Marseille airport to close and interrupted train traffic as the blaze spread rapidly to the edges of the city. Several forest fires have raged in recent days in southern France, fanning out at speed due to wind and parched vegetation after a heatwave. Scientists say human-induced climate change is ...

Airport Operations Restored After Cairo Telecom Blaze Disrupts Internet

This is Beirut, 08/07 09:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Egypt Cairo Fire Telecom Internet

A major fire erupted at a key telecommunications hub in the Egyptian capital on Monday, the Cairo governorate said in a statement, causing significant phone and internet disruption. The health ministry said in a statement that 14 people had been injured in the fire. The blaze began on the seventh floor of the historic 10-storey telephone ...

Kobayat Forest Fire Contained After Multiple Reignitions

This is Beirut, 02/07 17:55 - Reading : less than a minute

Fire Forests North Lebanon Qobayat

The fire that has been ravaging the hills of Kobayat, in northern Lebanon, has been brought under control as of Wednesday, according to local residents who spoke to This is Beirut. The blaze, which broke out on Sunday evening in the Maqal el-Baghel area, has already destroyed more than 20 hectares of forest. Thousands of trees have been lost, ...

New Deadly Fire in Iranian Industrial Complex

This is Beirut, 11/06 13:00 - Reading : less than a minute

Iran Fire Petrochemical

A fire broke out at a petrochemical complex in southern Iran on Wednesday, killing at least three people, state television reported. "Given the scale of the incident, the number of injuries and deaths is likely to increase," the broadcaster added, airing images of smoke rising from the Kaveh Petrochemical Complex in Bushehr province, 1,200 ...

Series of Fires: Extreme Heat and Climate Inaction Under Scrutiny

This is Beirut, 31/05 13:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Fire Bekaa Northern Lebanon Lebanese University

Several fires have been reported across various Lebanese regions, fueled by an intense heatwave. A fire broke out at the waste sorting plant in Minyeh, sending thick clouds of smoke into the sky. Civil Defense teams from the Minyeh center intervened to extinguish the flames and prevent the fire from spreading to nearby farmland and residential ...

Israel Reopens Key Roads as Firefighters Battle Blaze

This is Beirut, 01/05 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Israel Fire firefighters

Israeli firefighting teams battled wildfires near Jerusalem for a second day on Thursday, with police reporting the reopening of several major roads that had been closed. The fires broke out on Wednesday along the main Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway, prompting police to shut the roads and evacuate thousands of residents from nearby ...

Wildfire Erupts in Remhala, Civil Defense Races to Contain Flames

This is Beirut, 06/04 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A large wildfire broke out on Sunday morning in the forested valleys of Remhala, in the caza of Aley, prompting an urgent response from Lebanon’s Civil Defense units and the Lebanese Army, as the flames threatened to reach nearby residential areas. According to a statement from the Directorate of Media and Public Relations at the General ...

Turkey Hotel Fire Kills 76

This is Beirut, 22/01 14:45 - Reading : less than a minute

Turkey Bolu Fire

A deadly fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu, Turkey, killed 76 people and injured dozens during peak ski season. Investigations are ongoing as the nation observes a day of mourning.

Civil Defense Extinguishes Fire at Sin al-Fil Coral Station

This is Beirut, 08/01 16:35 - Reading : less than a minute

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Civil Defense teams extinguished a fire that broke out on Wednesday afternoon at a Coral gas station in Horsh Tabet, Sin al-Fil. An explosion was heard earlier, followed by the eruption of a massive fire in the gas station. The cause of the explosion remains unknown.

Two Firefighters Die Trying to Control a Blaze in Tripoli

This is Beirut, 2024-12-25 11:20 - Reading : less than a minute

Firefighters Civil Defense Fire Blaze Tripoli Mina

Two Civil Defense firefighters died on Wednesday morning while trying to control a fire in a warehouse inside a building in the port of Mina in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. The building collapsed on the two firefighters, Abdallah Mouhtadi and Khalil Achkar, who fell victim to the tragedy.

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