Fire engulfed the Ruse State Opera in flames and completely destroyed its roof. There are no reports of casualties, but the material damage is enormous. The building of the Ruse Opera is emblematic to the Bulgarian city. It was built with church funds..
The fire near Dupnitsa has been extinguished and the partial state of emergency put in place in the town has been lifted. The situation was aggravated after a pine forest caught fire close to Struma motorway , and the fire spread to an..
The fire near the villages of Bryagovo, Lyubenovo and Rhodopi near Haskovo has spread over 800 hectares of land. 93 fire fighters, forest rangers, military personnel and volunteers have joined the efforts to put out the conflagration. Heavy machinery..
A fire broke out at the sulfur cleaning system of unit 7 of Maritsa East 2 Thermal Power Plant in Bulgaria during planned repair works. All measures have been taken to secure the area. There are no injured workers and there no danger for the population..
In 2017, Bulgaria has allocated the largest share of its state budget for fire safety among other EU countries, Eurostat data show. This country has spent 108 million euros on fire protection, or 21 euros per capita. After Bulgaria come Latvia,..
A spark from the chimney set off a big fire at Father Ivan’s orphanage in Novi Han last night. No one has been injured in the blaze, said Father Ivan for the BNR’s Horizont channel, but added that major damage has been done. In his words the home..
The fire in Kassandra, Chalkidiki has been extinguished, firefighters are still on location A big fire broke out in the region of Kassandra, Chalkidiki. Most hotels there are full of Bulgarian tourists who came out to watch the efforts to..
The Bulgarian authorities have evacuated the residents of the village of Vlahi in southwestern Bulgaria because of the fire, which keeps raging in the Kresna gorge for the fifth day now. The evacuation of the population in Vlahi began at 2 pm,..
Firefighter continue combating the fire that was raging in the Pirin Mountain and it is expected that it would be completely extinguished by Monday night, Mayor of Kresna Municipality Nikolay Georgiev has told the BNR. More than 600 people have been..
People from two villages were evacuated, and the mayors of the municipalities of Kresna and Simitli declared a state of emergency in three populated areas after a raging fire destroyed over 700 hectares of mixed forests in Kresna Gorge within hours..
