Fires

Hundreds of brand new Maserati and other vehicles were destroyed at a seaport in Italy this week when floodwaters acted as the catalyst that exploded the luxury cars’ batteries into a raging inferno, reports said.

Over 700 firefighters battled a wildfire Sunday in a national park west of Lisbon that forced Portuguese authorities to evacuate about 350 people.

Brazil's National Museum has suffered catastrophic damages after a massive fire broke out on Sunday. Firefighters are working to salvage some of the artifacts inside the museum, which was once home to a 12,000-year-old skeleton, the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas.

A small airplane or engine-driven recreational aircraft crashed Sunday on a rugged and scenic mountain south of Reno, igniting a wildfire in Nevada that officials feared could climb uphill toward the Mount Rose Ski Tahoe resort.

Firefighters in Brazil on Sunday worked to douse massive flames engulfing a 200-year-old history museum — as the country's president called it "a sad day for all Brazilians."

Deadly wildfires have killed five people in California.

Greek investigators have seen "serious indications" that a forest fire that killed at least 82 people outside Athens was set deliberately, a government official said Thursday.

The death toll from the firestorm that swept through a seaside resort town near the Greek capital climbed to at least 80 people Wednesday, as harrowing stories of surviving the inferno began to emerge.

A firestorm that swept through a seaside resort town near the Greek capital killed at least 60 people, including families with children found clasped in a last embrace near a beach as they tried to flee the flames, officials said.

Flames burn out of control near Athens.