Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
300,000 to 480,000 [2] Great Irish Famine of 1740–41 (The Great Frost) 1740–1741. Some estimates indicate a death toll as high as 500,000 from starvation and disease. [3] [4] 250,000. 1918 influenza pandemic. 1918 (Sep–Nov) An estimated 200,000 people died in England and Wales. [5]
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service in action. The fire services in the United Kingdom operate under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland . As of 2023, emergency cover is provided by 49 fire and rescue services (FRS) in the UK. [1] The older terms of fire brigade and fire ...
The Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 ( SI 1999 /1877) were a result of European Communities Act 1972. They brought the UK legislation up to a standard that met the fire safety requirements of two health and safety European Directives, 89/391/EEC [15] and 89/654/EEC, [16] adopted in 1989.
Started by lightning, it is the second largest wildfire in Colorado state history by size. 2012: 18,247 acres (7,384 ha) Waldo Canyon Fire: Colorado: Rampart Range and West Colorado Springs with 346 homes destroyed primarily in the Mountain Shadows neighborhood, it is the second most destructive fire in state history. Two fatalities reported. 2012
All wildfires in the UK between 1 Jan and 30 Apr 2019. By 23 April ninety-six wildfires greater than 25 hectares (62 acres; 0.097 sq mi) had been recorded in the United Kingdom, eclipsing the total observed in the whole of 2018 and equalling that year's burned land area of approximately 18,000 hectares (44,000 acres; 69 sq mi). [7] England.
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or veld fire. [ 3 ]
The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666. To the left is London Bridge; to the right, the Tower of London. Old St Paul's Cathedral is in the distance, surrounded by the tallest flames. The Great Fire of London ...
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, History of the formation of the United Kingdom and History of the United Kingdom