A Burnley firefighter has returned from Turkey following the devastating earthquakes that hit the country earlier this month. Chris Jowett, crew manager at Blackburn fire station, was deployed to Turkey on February 6 just hours after a 7.8 and a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the…
A firefighter who rescued people in Turkey says no amount of training could have prepared her for the destruction she witnessed. The death toll from last week's earthquake is over 41,000 since the 7.8 magnitude quake struck. Emma Atcherley from…
A huge fire at one of Turkey's main ports has been extinguished, the defence ministry has said. The blaze at Iskenderun, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, was caused by Monday's earthquakes, which have devastated parts of the country. Hundreds of shipping…
Rescuers are using their bare hands to search for survivors from the devastating earthquake which has now killed more than 5,000 people in Turkey and Syria. The magnitude 7.8 quake toppled entire apartment blocks, wrecked hospitals, and left thousands of people injured or…
Hundreds of people have been killed in Syria, at least 120 of them in rebel-held areas, after an earthquake rattled neighboring Turkey on Monday, rescue workers said. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck before dawn near the Turkish city of Gaziantep,…
A powerful earthquake has struck in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, killing more than 500 people as they slept and trapping many others. The US Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude tremor struck at 04:17 local time (01:17 GMT)…
A house fire in northwestern Turkey has killed nine Syrian refugees, including eight children. The blaze broke out late on Tuesday in the first-floor apartment of a four-story building in the city of Bursa. The victims were six siblings aged between…
A night-time fire in a shopping centre in the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 11 people, the interior ministry said, in one of the deadliest blazes in recent years. Many of those killed on Tuesday were security guards…