Chronology of some of the Americas&#39; worst fires
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A blaze in a crowded nightclub in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires killed at least 169 people and injured 375 late on Thursday night.
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Honduran children hunting rabbits who were running from a burning sugarcane field were caught in the blaze themselves. Thirteen youngsters were killed, and a man and a 14th child were severely burned.
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Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall in South Asia, and an historic heat wave in Europe.
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The wildfires are dying down, and data show how immense these fires really were.
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By Erika Ray, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 10--When flames erupted from a barn stocked with bales of straw and hay east of Findlay in October, the Vanlue Volunteer Fire Department was notified of the emergency.   Six firefighters responded out of the 24 on its roster.
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By Daniel Howden  Peru's glaciers are melting. High in the Andes, freak hailstorms and cold snaps are freezing llamas to death. In the north of Kenya, unprecedented droughts have driven herdsmen into deadly battles for the few water holes.
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Authorities identified the second and third people to have died in the fires.
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The hazards of this hostile continent include ice, fire, wind and whiteout. And then there's the Crud.
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Southern Europe sizzled under a heat wave Tuesday, with temperatures hitting triple digits for a seventh day in Romania, blazes forcing the evacuation of tourists in Croatia and Italy, and wildfires in Macedonia and Greece exploding shells from long-ago wars. At least 35 heat-related deaths were reported.
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Crews battling hundreds of forest fires for the past two weeks in Spain's northwestern Galicia region have managed to control all but four blazes, officials said Tuesday. None of those fires is considered serious, and rain is forecast for Wednesday, the rural affairs department of the Galician regional government said.
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much
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Huge plumes of thick smoke and flames engulf the upper half of the 56-floor East Tower of the Parque Central block, in Caracas, October 17, 2004.
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This was his day, one he&#39;ll remember long after it fades from most others&#39; memories. But it almost wasn&#39;t that way. This was almost a disaster of the highest order, one the Rangers might never have forgotten or recovered from, for that matter.
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Wind-blown wildfires threatened more than 1,100 homes in Colorado and Arizona, where drought conditions and gusting winds created ideal conditions for spreading the flames.
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Florida officials are worried that high winds and holiday barbeques could spark a large scale brush fire.  Firefighters in Palm Bay and Melbourne have tackled at least five small blazes between them during the past two days, Florida Today said Thursday.
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Wildfires across the country have burned a record number of acres this year, and with the scorched land comes a record bill, a federal official said Tuesday.
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Australia's deadliest bushfires for 22 years left nine people dead and dozens injured as firefighters fought to control blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.