Massive wildfire rages in Japan, forces thousands to evacuate

Two forest fires continued to spread toward residential areas in a northern Japanese town on Friday, prompting authorities to expand evacuation orders to more than 3,000 people, with the blazes still uncontained, media reports said. The blaze broke out on Wednesday afternoon in a ⁠mountainous area in Iwate Prefecture, followed by another fire about two … The post Massive wildfire rages in Japan, forces thousands to evacuate appeared first on Times Kuwait .

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