A fire chief in the south-west said firefighters were called to several fires a day in recent days, saying that all were caused by people who ignored warnings.

Spring blossoms, dusty streets, distant fires and a lack of rain combine to create hazardous respiratory conditions.

The wind is causing trouble in some of the areas affected by wildfires and now more people are having to evacuate their homes.

Gallery | The fires, which were swept in from Mongolia by high winds, have caused almost $9.4 million in damage.

The cost of the recent fires has been revealed as Vladimir Putin today visited TransBaikal to assess the damage en route to a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Vladivostok

At least 90 left homeless in one village after raging infernos, say reports.

The warmest springtime temperature of the year so far is 14.1 degrees Celsius, and fires are popping up around the country.

Firefighters were battling a blaze in Alexandra, City of Johannesburg emergency services said on Tuesday.

Wildfires ablaze early in year due to lack of snow, posing threat to railway in Russian Far East.

Australia’s heat waves, now an annual ordeal, have been expanding into new territory — like Tasmania, where more than 50 wildfires were burning as of Friday.

'These fires can then pop back up in the spring when conditions warm up,' says the environment department. A local crew will likely extinguish the fires by Monday.

Mills in the heart of Canada's timber industry have fallen quieter this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees.

Local charities call for donations after blaze wrecks 500 homes in Alexandra

The death toll in the Camp fire in Northern California rose to 63 Thursday as President Trump planned to visit California to meet with people impacted by the wildfires in what marks his second trip to the state since his election.

Two deadly wildfires fueled by "devil winds" tore through opposite ends of California on Sunday, with residents urged to heed evacuation orders by officials forced to leave their own homes. In northern California, the Camp Fire is one of the deadliest and most destructive in the state'

Seija Paasonen has been tracking the patterns of the North American forest fires for several weeks now. She says that the smoke has traveled as far as Europe owing to wind patterns in the upper atmosphere.

The British Columbia government has declared a state of emergency to support the provincewide response to the ongoing wildfire situation.