5121230 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://todayheadline.co/algerias-desperate-wildfire-fight-buckets-and-branches/Smoke rises from a wildfire in the forested hills of the Kabylie region, east of the capital Algiers, on August 10, 2021. The once verdant mountains of the Algerian region of Tizi Ouzou, peppered with olive groves and coniferous trees, were ravaged by more than 100 forest fires over the past fortnight.2021-08-22T03:18+0200todayheadline-96cce191cda8566266924aff92664b4a20210822031800https://news.yahoo.com/algerias-desperate-wildfire-fight-buckets-230501908.html?_guc_consent_skip=1629588164"[The heat] is coming from over the mountain. I've never seen fires like this," he said, squinting into the distance. Forest fires are not a new phenomenon for Algeria, and the north-eastern region of Tizi Ouzou in particular. On the contrary, they are regular occurrences that first responders tussle with almost every year.2021-08-22T01:22+0200news-yahoo-6dd64d833115082f81d71f3d7706720f20210822012200https://au.news.yahoo.com/algerias-desperate-wildfire-fight-buckets-230501908.html?_guc_consent_skip=1629587935"[The heat] is coming from over the mountain. I've never seen fires like this," he said, squinting into the distance. Forest fires are not a new phenomenon for Algeria, and the north-eastern region of Tizi Ouzou in particular. On the contrary, they are regular occurrences that first responders tussle with almost every year.2021-08-22T01:18+0200yahoo-au-c064ab8ac03203a28aebc4c09a37917520210822011800https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58269789The once verdant mountains of the Algerian region of Tizi Ouzou, peppered with olive groves and coniferous trees, were ravaged by more than 100 forest fires over the past fortnight. Tens of thousands of hectares around the villages of Larbaâ Nath Irathen, Beni Douala and Aït Mesbah were completely....2021-08-22T01:13+0200bbc-5bcd128112f1c8596e5f248e1d34a18620210822011300