Timber worth millions of rupees was destroyed due to wildfires in more than 200 community and national forests in the Chure and Mahabharat areas in the district within the past two weeks.

The District Forest Office (DFO) said forest fires engulfed more than 100 community forests in Alitali, Sirsha and Jogbuda VDCs in the inner Madhes and Chure area while a dozen of forests at Salla in the Mahabharat area caught fires.

A forest fire broke out at 9:35 am in Northeast China'a Heilongjiang province Tuesday morning, local authorities said.

A total of 4,040 people are working to tame the forest fire which rips through Tayuan forest in the Greater Hinggan Mountains in the province.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Fire crews gained a fragile upper hand against stubborn Arizona wildfires on Monday, but cautioned that tinder-dry conditions and high temperatures could jeopardize containment efforts in coming days.

Blazes in rugged, mountainous areas of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado have forced the evacuation of several small towns and torched more than 65 square miles (168 square km) of forest, brush and grass in the U.S. Southwest.

Forest fire About 700 people in Yebilaptsa, Zhemgang are battling a forest fire, which has been raging for the last two days, and has burnt about ten acres of chirpine forest under the Royal Manas national park.

Students from Yebilaptsa schools, and police and volunteers from nearby areas, have been battling the flames, since it was first reported around 1am on May 20. Trong gup reported the fire to the fire division, the park’s assistant forester Sangay Choda said.

The fire started below the Panbang-Gomphu road, a few kilometres away from Yebilaptsa hospital.

An Arizona wildfire whipped up by winds and dry conditions threatened to trigger more evacuations on Sunday, just as firefighters were nearly done battling the biggest of four blazes in the state.

Fires in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado have forced the evacuation of several small towns and torched more than 65 square miles (168 square km) of forest, brush and grass in the U.S. Southwest.

Crews with hand tools battled to contain wind-whipped Arizona wildfires on Wednesday that have raced across more than 30 square miles of parched ponderosa forest, brush and grassland, consuming several buildings and threatening a small town.

The Sunflower Fire, the largest of at least four blazes in central and eastern Arizona, has burned nearly 20 square miles (52 square kilometers) in the Tonto National Forest, about 40 miles north of Phoenix, fire officials said.

Fire erupted on Margalla Hills at two points on Wednesday, gutting a huge stretch of forest area, besides affecting flora and fauna.

Autsho, Lhuentse: A forest fire that started from the banks of Kurichu at Autsho in Lhuentse has razed, over the weekend, more than 700 acres of pine forest, which is abundantly covered with lemon grass.

According to eyewitnesses, the fire started when a rolling boulder at Autsho-Ladrong farm road construction site hit a tree, which caused several other stones to roll off. The sparks that flew when the stones rubbed against each other started the fire.