Rain helps contain wildfire in Japan’s Iwate
Steady rainfall on Wednesday has helped contain the spread of a week-long wildfire in Ofunato City of Japan's Iwate Prefecture, local media reported.
Steady rainfall on Wednesday has helped contain the spread of a week-long wildfire in Ofunato City of Japan's Iwate Prefecture, local media reported.
A wildfire that broke out on Saturday in the mountains spanning Japan's Kofu City and Fuefuki City in Yamanashi prefecture remained uncontained, local media reported on Sunday.
Multiple wildfires have ravaged Los Angeles County, fueled by high winds and dry conditions. Emergency services have been working tirelessly to contain the flames since Tuesday.
A massive wildfire in the US state of Oregon has grown rapidly to some 600 square miles (1,554 sq km), an area more than half the size of Rhode Island's land mass, officials have said.
Crews in Northern California continued battling the largest wildfire of the year in the western US state, which has left more than 130 structures destroyed and thousands of people evacuated.
"Dry conditions continue with relative humidity lowering into the single digits in many areas," the report noted, adding that wind had increased since Tuesday night
The extreme and dangerous heat was expected to break all-time records in cities and towns from eastern Washington state to Portland to southern Oregon.
The blaze ignited on Sunday, exploded Tuesday, due to very dry, windy, and changing conditions.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been over 8,100 wildfires that have burned well over 3.9 million acres in California.
This fire season, California has witnessed 8,136 fires that have scorched 3,754,729 acres of land.
