Firefighting teams are battling a massive wildfire near California's Big Sur that is threatening thousands of homes for a 10th day, as a much newer blaze spread, rapidly, damaging homes as it more than doubled in size.

The design of a city centre building saved lives by preventing a major blaze from spreading to overhead apartments, senior fire officers believe writes Eoin English.

A convoy of evacuees have begun the long drive out of work camps north of the fire-ravaged Fort McMurray area.

An elderly man has died in a house fire in Dublin.

The owner of a horse which was stabbed and “sexually violated” in a field is urging people to help police catch whoever did it.

Emergency services are dealing with a fire in a retail unit in Carlow town.

Firefighters in Fairfax, Virgignia, rushed to the scene of a house fire on July 19 - with one crew member wearing a portable video camera on his helmet.

Six units of Waterford Fire Brigade are tackling a blaze in the Bilberry area of the city.

Police are investigating the cause of a fire that killed thousands of pigs at a farm in the North.

Gardaí are still waiting to speak to a man and woman who remain in hospital following a fire which claimed the lives of two men in a Co Cork apartment.

Gardaí obtained a court order last night allowing them to carry out forensic examinations for a further 24 hours at an apartment block where a fire killed two men in their 30s.

A number of buildings had to be evacuated and streets cordoned off as firefighters struggled to control a major blaze which broke out near the centre of Dungarvan, Co Waterford