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The president urged firefighters in Paris to "act quickly".
A wildfire in South Korea has forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate. The fire broke out in eastern Gangwon Province on 5 April before spreading to the seaside city of Sokcho, burning out over 385 hectares of land and 310 buildings. At least one person is known to have died.
All four were killed in the blaze on 5 February.
More than 30 firefighters are tackled the blaze.
As with any disaster, a series of things need to go wrong for it to happen – and this fire was no different.
Eight people have died and 30 are injured after a fire at an apartment building in Paris. A woman has been detained for possible criminal cause of the fire at the eight-storey building. Fire services worked through the night to control the blaze.
Dozens have been injured at a restaurant explosion in Sapporo, Northern Japan. The fire burned for six hours with more than twenty fire trucks. Some of the local residents described the sound as thunder or an earthquake. The cause of the explosion is still under investigation.
A woman was forced to dropped her baby out of a window to bystanders as a fire engulfed an apartment complex in Dallas. The mother and other residents jumped onto mattresses before firefighters arrived. Only a few suffered minor injuries and investigators are trying to determine what started it.
Attempts are being made to create fire-wise communities, but clearly we have some way to go and time is not on our side.
Emergency crews are worried about asbestos risks.