Israel sends aid to Cyprus to put out fire July 1st, 2007 Israel sends aid to Cyprus to put out fire At the request of the local government of the Republic of Cyprus, Israel sent two fire-extinguishing airplanes and 33 tones of fire extinguishing materials on Thursday morning (June 28, 2007) to assist in extinguishing fires that broke out in the Troodos Mountains last week. Israel sends aid to Cyprus to put out fire July 1st, 2007 Israel sends aid to Cyprus to put out fire At the request...

forest service has sent its second contingent of specialty firefighters to Quebec, where conditions around Val d or and Roberval were so dry by mid-June that a single lightning storm sparked more than 100 new fires. These fires clear out ground litter and promote grass growth, while thickening the lower bark of the surviving trees and building their fire resistance. specialists headed for Alaska, including six from Salmon Arm trained to rappel from helicopters to tackle new fire starts in...

Forest Service from selling burned timber in spotted owl habitat in Oregon until she determines whether the project followed the law. She will hear arguments July 12 on the lawsuit brought by conservation groups claiming the Forest Service distorted scientific evidence that threatened northern spotted owls use burned forests for habitat and ignored the Northwest Forest Plan's prohibition against logging in old growth forest reserves for purely commercial purposes. She will hear arguments...

Walls of flames were still resisting attempts to extinguish them, although "they have lost a lot of their intensity," a spokeswoman for the fire service said. Greek firefighters backed by troops battled for the fourth day Sunday to halt a forest fire ravaging a nature park overlooking Athens, as the country sweltered in a record heatwave. Nationwide firemen were also fighting to put out the last pockets of fire of two major blazes in Thassalia in central Greece, and in the popular tourist...

National Forest officials have closed a large area around the fire. While the incident commander at that blaze reported progress with his crew of 407, he warned of hot and dry weather that threatened to boost the size of the blaze. Cause of the fire remains under investigation. June 30, 2007 A forest fire on the shore of Hebgen Lake s Madison Arm just west of Yellowstone National Park forced evacuations and prompted Gallatin National Forest officials to impose fire restrictions in the...