Forest fire consumes ‘at least’ 250 acres in central Colombia
A forest fire that has been raging in Colombia for three days, has consumed at least 250 acres of land in the central Colombian department of Boyaca, according to local…
A forest fire that has been raging in Colombia for three days, has consumed at least 250 acres of land in the central Colombian department of Boyaca, according to local…
Fire departments in Colombia are experiencing shortages of the equipment and resources necessary to fight fires in half of the country, said Captain Oscar Mejia, reported Caracol news.
Regions throughout Colombia are suffering extreme drought, which has resulted in a series of forest-fires with a devastating impact upon the environment.
Authorities in northern Colombia said Wednesday that 14 people have so far died following a prison fire in the city of Barranquilla last week.
Colombian painter Fernando Botero escaped unharmed along with his wife after a fire broke out in their residence in central Colombia, local media reported on Monday.
A jealous enraged man on Sunday set fire to his house, consequently burning the neighborhood, over a man whistling at his wife in Cali. The man reportedly came home drunk…
A fire displaced at least 1,000 people who were living in the old cellars of the national railway in the northeastern Colombian city of Bucaramanga. “It appears that people were…
A fire destroyed at least 74 houses in the western Colombia on Monday, reported local media. The fire started in a suburb of the city of Tado, located in the…
Up to 15 prisoners were injured in a fire in a Bogota jail, reported Colombian media Friday. The fire allegedly occurred in southern Bogota’s La Picota National Prison during the course…