#Firefighter

Firefighters averted a major disaster on Thursday as they managed to put out a fire that broke out near the villages of Monagroulli and Pentakomo. The blaze, which threatened residential ...

A Larnaca firefighter is receiving precautionary treatment in hospital after rocks fell on him while rescuing a dog from a well. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis stated that such open ...

The fire services on Friday completed an exercise in the Vasiliko area on Friday, according to spokesman Andreas Kettis. The scenario involved a fire at one of the liquid gas ...

The establishing of a bicommunal response team to fight fires across the island under the auspices of the EU and/or the UN as a confidence building measure was proposed ...

Cyprus has the second highest percentage of professional firefighters in the EU, according to a study published on Tuesday by Eurostat, covering data from 2021. According to the study, 365,100 people were ...

A pub in Pallouriotissa was damaged after a fire broke out on the ground floor of the premises, the fire department announced on Tuesday. Firefighters received information about the blaze ...

Two Kamov-32 firefighting helicopters are set to arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday and expected to operate in the coming weekend following a choppy procurement process and the signing of the ...

Two Air Tractor aircraft leased by the Republic are expected to arrive from Latin America in the next day or so. The AirTractors will be incorporated into the current force ...

Cyprus would like to function as a regional hub to coordinate responses of neighbouring countries to fires, President Nicos Anastasiades has said. In an interview with Politis following the devastating ...

Bills to employ volunteer forest firefighters and 300 guards to monitor the Green Line for migrant crossings could be voted through before parliament closes for the summer, the Cyprus News Agency ...

Firefighting exercise Hephestus 2022, part of Forest Protection week, took place on Friday and aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the state’s entire forest firefighting system. The exercise included a ...

Cyprus will have ten aerial firefighting means at its disposal this year, it emerged after a wide-ranging meeting on tackling and preventing fires ahead of the summer season. Reports suggested ...

US Ambassador in Cyprus Judith Garber delivered Thursday 21 specialised breathing masks for firefighters during a ceremony at the fire service headquarters in Nicosia. The embassy said that, to both commemorate ...

Fire fighters have contained two blazes in the Limassol district on Tuesday, one of them in heavy industrial zone in Ypsonas, the fire service said. Four helicopters and six fire ...

In a special ceremony Thursday evening, President Nicos Anastasiades thanked the Cypriot firefighting mission deployed to Greece last month for going “above and beyond,” adding that their dedication made all ...

Israel is seeking international help to battle wildfires outside Jerusalem that have forced hundreds to evacuate and sent clouds of smoke billowing over the city, the foreign ministry said on ...

Defence has always been something of sacred cow. Everyone has the patriotic duty to support our military and applaud government expenditure on defence equipment, whatever it is and regardless of ...

State officials welcomed the Cypriot firefighting mission who returned from Greece early on Friday after battling “some of the worst fires” for more than a week in Attica and Evia. ...

A year before the recent catastrophic fire that burned nearly 55 square kilometres in the forest areas of Limassol and Larnaca and killed four people, employees at the forestry department wrote ...

Cypriot firefighters helping battle fires in Greece are currently operating in the Afidnes community of Attica, spokesman Andreas Kettis said late on Friday afternoon. In a message on Twitter, Kettis ...

By Elias Hazou and Gina Agapiou A Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece was doing its part in assisting extinguishing efforts of the Greek forces in Varympompi, near Athens, fire services ...

A mission from the fire service and civil defence arrived in Greece Wednesday morning to help bring under control fires that have reached residential areas outside Athens. Fire service spokesman ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday gave instructions to state services to proceed immediately with implementing measures to improve the tackling of fires after a meeting with all competent authorities. According ...

A €1.2m base for firefighting aircraft was inaugurated in Mammari in the Nicosia district on Tuesday by Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis, who pledged the government’s commitment to support efforts ...