Sydney Sweeney has spoken out over the devastation caused by the wildfires in her hometown of Spokane, Washington.
According to local authorities, the fires have consumed more than 8,000 acres across Spokane County, with three main blazes destroying more than 700 structures. No deaths or injuries have been reported.
Taking to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Sydney put a spotlight on the news, emphasising that around 65,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.
"Spokane has always been home to me. It's where I grew up, where my family still lives, and where so many of the people and places that shaped me are," she began. "The devastating fires have changed countless lives in ways that are hard to put into words. Thousands of families have lost their homes, their belongings, and places of business, including members of my own family. This devastation is something our community has never experienced on this scale."
The Euphoria actress went on to note that she is supporting organisations including Innovia Foundation, SpokAnimal, Second Harvest, and Watch Duty amid the emergency. She also shared a link to Baby2Baby, a nonprofit that provides essentials for families and children.
"Unlike larger cities that often receive an overwhelming amount of national attention and resources, Spokane doesn't have the same spotlight," the 28-year-old declared. "If you're looking for ways to help, these are four organizations I'm supporting that are on the ground right now helping this community that needs us."

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Amal Clooney keeps fit by playing tennis. The 48-year-old human rights lawyer is guarded when it comes to her exercise regime but has been pictured after playing a match with her husband George Clooney at their Lake Garda home in 2017.
The Hollywood star has previously described how he struggled to compete against his wife on the tennis court.
Amal and George Clooney in Venice ahead of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival 2025 (Getty)
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About 45 people have been asked to leave their homes due to a gas leak.
Billericay Fire Station posted on Facebook at about 16:25 BST to say it was dealing with an incident in Southend Road, in Great Burstead, Essex.
Station manager Mat Bannon said: "About 45 residents have been evacuated as a precaution and we would like to thank them for their patience.
"As the wind is likely to change direction, we would advise all residents in the area to stay inside and keep their doors and windows closed."
The fire service said it was "working with partners to resolve the incident".

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As crews battle fast-moving wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of structures and forced thousands to evacuate in the Spokane area, one wildfire survivor is urging Americans to prepare before disaster strikes.
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate and reality personality Spencer Pratt, whose Pacific Palisades home was destroyed in the 2025 Palisades Fire, said the devastation unfolding in Spokane is a warning for communities across the country.
"My deepest sympathies to the folks in Spokane who just lost everything in an instant," Pratt wrote in a lengthy social media post Sunday. "Nothing can really prepare you for this devastation."
Pratt, who has been outspoken about the emotional and financial toll of losing his own home, warned that communities across the country should not ****** ume they are immune from similar disasters.
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Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate in Washington where fires have burned more than 250,000 acres. From the air to the ground, firefighters are battling the blaze. In Greece, fire officials say two people died after firefighting helicopters collided. NBC News' Camila Bernal has the latest.

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By Lefteris Papadimas, Yves Herman and Emma Pinedo
ATHENS/MADRID, July 31 (Reuters) - Greece battled wildfires on Friday on multiple fronts, from the outskirts of Athens to the central part of the country and on the island of Crete, while France and Spain won some respite after bringing major blazes under control.
Europe has been ravaged by wildfires ‌this summer after successive record-breaking heatwaves, leaving vast stretches of drought-parched vegetation primed to burn, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Residents of two communities ‌west of Athens were advised to evacuate as a precaution as smoke billowed from densely wooded hills surrounding the Greek capital, with authorities scrambling a formation of water-bombing aircraft to extinguish the blaze.
In Boeotia, north-west of Athens, hundreds of residents and visitors were evacuated from a small coastal community aboard coast guard boats and fishing vessels as thick orange smoke blanketed the area.

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By Kate Abnett
BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) - Human-caused climate change made the extreme weather fuelling wildfires in southwestern France twice as likely, and made the conditions ‌driving blazes in central Spain 20 times more likely, scientists said on Friday.
Ongoing ‌wildfires in Spain and France have forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and scorched huge swathes of land.
The World Weather Attribution group of scientists used historical weather observations to ******* s how "fire-prone" hot, dry and windy conditions, which indicate how difficult it is to suppress a fire once it starts, have changed over time.
Greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning coal, oil and gas, have ‌increased the planet's average temperature to ⁠around 1.4 Celsius above pre-industrial times, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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Prince William received support from Prince Albert of Monaco after both royals addressed Europe's devastating wildfires. Albert echoed William's environmentalist concerns while expressing solidarity with families affected by the dangerous fires. Their statements highlighted growing concerns about the extreme weather and the need for stronger environmental action.
Prince Albert released a statement supporting communities affected by wildfires across France, Spain, and the U.K. He shared the message alongside his wife, Princess Charlene, offering support to families forced to evacuate. Albert also praised firefighters and emergency workers protecting communities and threatened natural environments.
"Protecting our environment is an emergency that must bring us all together," Albert wrote. He connected the devastating fire to wider climate disruptions affecting natural environments and biodiversity. His comments closely echoed Prince William's recent warning about increasingly extreme climate conditions.
William previously shared a statement alongside his wife, Kate Middleton, addressing the ongoing wildfire crisis. "Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the devastating wildfires across France, Spain and the U.K," he wrote. He also thanked emergency workers and volunteers facing "extraordinarily difficult conditions."
William and Albert have previously worked together on environmental issues and commitment to conservation. In June 2025, William traveled to Monaco for the Blue Economy and Finance Forum.

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George and Amal Clooney evacuated their Brignoles home in France as wildfires spread across multiple European countries
The couple announced their departure in a letter to the Brignoles mayor, sharing their concern for the community
The wildfires across southern Europe have ravaged France, Spain, Italy and Greece
George and Amal Clooney have evacuated their home in France amid the ongoing wildfires across Europe.
The couple and their 9-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, live in the town of Brignoles, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Currently, their home is in one of the many regions where wildfires are spreading across France, Spain, Italy and Greece.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Part of a major interstate highway in Oregon was closed Monday due to a wildfire that forced a small town to evacuate, one of dozens of blazes burning across the state.
The Fox Fire forced the closure of Interstate 84 for some 70 miles (113 kilometers) between Baker City and Ontario near the Idaho state line before reopening later in the day, the Oregon Department of Transportation said. I-84 is a key thoroughfare, running from Portland in the west through the Columbia River Gorge and into eastern Oregon before crossing the Snake River eastward through Boise.
The transportation department said the wildfire remains active in the area and that intermittent closures were still possible.
Challenging wildfires have burned across the Western U.S. this summer, following months of dry weather, a record lack of snow in some areas, hot spells and erratic winds. Federal authorities announced Saturday that a fourth firefighter died of his injuries after he and several colleagues were overcome last month by a fast-moving wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border.
The Fox Fire was burning near the Oregon-Idaho state line about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northeast of the small town of Huntington, which was under a Level 3 "Go Now" evacuation order, meaning its roughly 500 residents have been told to leave immediately.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean authorities ordered civilians to evacuate on Tuesday after a suspected white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near the capital, Seoul.
Officials in the city of Pyeongtaek urged nearby residents to move to a safe location and avoid skin exposure after the leak at the Osan Air Base was detected at around 5 p.m. The alert was lifted several hours later following the completion of decontamination work, according to text messages sent out by the city.
The U.S. 51st Fighter Wing said it established a 300-meter cordon around the base "out of an abundance of caution" after experts conducting a routine inspection identified white phosphorus crystallization that left residue inside a munitions crate.
An explosive ordnance disposal unit was deployed and response plans were immediately activated to ensure the munitions remained fully contained, it said in a statement.
The cordon was lifted after emergency response personnel mitigated the situation, allowing the base to return to normal operations, it said. There were "no injuries resulting from this situation and no risk to personnel on or off installation."

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Houthi attacks are expanding the Middle East conflict into the Red Sea, forcing tankers to reroute and pushing Brent above $91 amid growing fears of prolonged supply disruptions.
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- Perhaps foreshadowing an escalation in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia's national oil company Saudi Aramco shipped record volumes of crude from its Red Sea port of Yanbu over the past four weeks.
- Yemen's Houthi rebels have sent an email to most global shipping companies, warning against loading any cargo in Saudi ports and threatening with strikes in case they come within operational reach.
- Following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia has been relying on the 7 million b/d East-West pipeline to evacuate its production from its eastern regions towards oil markets.
- Of this, only 4-4.5 million b/d due to port limitations in Yanbu, the endpoint of the East-West pipeline and a key infrastructure chokepoint, with an additional 1.5-2 million b/d shipped to Aramco refineries along the Red Sea coast.

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The U.S. military unleashed airstrikes against Iran on Saturday evening in retaliation for Tehran hitting two military bases in Jordan a day prior, during which two U.S. service members were killed, the U.S. Central Command announced (Centcom).
The new wave of strikes began at 6 p.m. EDT in what U.S. officials said was an effort to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and "punish" the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched missiles and drones against U.S. soldiers in Jordan on Friday.
Apart from the U.S. service members who were killed in action in Jordan, one service member is currently missing, according to Centcom. The U.S. military death toll has now risen to 16 since the start of the conflict.
Four U.S. service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and they have been discharged since. Other personnel who sustained "minor injuries" have returned to duty, according to the U.S. military.
"Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday.

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WENZHOU, China, July 11 (Reuters) - Typhoon Bavi made landfall late on Saturday in the coastal city of Taizhou in eastern China, where nearly 2 million people were evacuated, having earlier pummelled ******* an's southern Sakishima island chain ‌and brushed past northern Taiwan.
Even as Bavi continues to slow and weaken on its northwesterly path, the typhoon is still a potent ‌risk due to the sheer volume of moisture it holds within its rain bands, about the size of France from end to end.
Bavi had maximum sustained winds of about 144 km per hour (90 mph), equivalent to Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, when it made landfall at around 11:20 p.m. local time (1520 GMT), according to the National Meteorological Center.
State media said more than 1.7 million people had been evacuated across Zhejiang province, where Taizhou is located, along with more than 100,000 each from neighbouring Fujian province and Beijing, and some 34,000 from Shanghai.

LOS GALLARDOS, Spain, July 10 (Reuters) - As flames approached their homes and the smoke-filled air became choking, panicked residents in rural Andalusian villages around Los Gallardos in southern Spain chose to flee — a decision some paid for with their lives.
With the wildfire racing ‌up the bone-dry mountainsides, residents faced a choice of taking their chance and leaving, or sheltering in place.
Authorities recommended some residents above ‌Los Gallardos evacuate and signalled a safe route, while later it was considered safer for those in the forested hamlet of Bedar to stay where they were given the fire was so close.
"In situations like this, it is essential that we all follow the routes indicated," Antonio Sanz, head of emergencies in the Andalusia region, said. "Unfortunately in this instance a decision was taken to use another route that wasn't the one recommended for evacuation. Looking for another way out via a dry riverbed turned out to be a trap."
As the flames approached, Antonio Rubio, a handyman living in Bedar, said the smoke had made it impossible to shelter in place.

New York City officials said that they are "confident" that the high-rise building which prompted evacuations after steel beams were seen buckling is stable. Residents described "chaotic" scenes as blocks in the vicinity were evacuated immediately following the discovery of the compromised beams.

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people have died in flooding from Tropical Storm Maysak.
Most of the deaths were related to the breach of a dam in the city of Nanning, which claimed 26 lives, said Ding Wei, the city's vice mayor, at a news briefing.
Maysak brought record rainfall to in Guangxi region, breaching reservoirs and stranding people for days in homes and other buildings. The previously announced death toll was six people.
Drones and thousands of boats have been used in a massive relief and rescue operation to reach people trapped by the waters. About 130,000 people have been evacuated.
Heavy rain battered southern Guangxi for days, with ****** ulative rainfall of 10 to 40 centimeters (4 to 16 inches) in some areas and more than 90 centimeters (35 inches) in hard-hit areas, the national meteorological center said.

July Fourth events across the East Coast were evacuated as severe weather impacted America's 250th anniversary celebrations in D.C., New York City and Philadelphia. In the capital, more than 10,000 attendees were told to seek shelter in buildings near the National Mall as thunderstorms moved in.

Have you ever walked along a beach and wondered about the reason behind the large concrete blocks or bits of rusting metal emerging from the shingle?
Recent storms and shifting sands have exposed various World War Two sea defences at sites in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Today, the East Anglian coast is a largely peaceful sight, but from summer 1940 it was a place of frenzied construction.
"It was frantic throughout July, August and September in 1940, as they constructed defences as fast as they could to block an invasion all along the UK coast," said Dave Thurlow, who works at the RSPB reserve north of Sizewell in Suffolk.
Very little had been done to build defences around the United Kingdom until after the British Expeditionary Force was forced to evacuate from the beaches of Dunkirk.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire burning southwest of Denver has forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and destroyed more than 160 structures by Friday as erratic winds pushed the blaze across two Colorado counties.
The Aspen Acres fire is one of about 40 uncontained large blazes burning mostly in the West, fueled by months of dry weather and a record lack of snow this past winter in some places.
Fire personnel were scooping water from the Pueblo Reservoir to fight Aspen Acres fire, which expanded overnight by 17 square miles (44 square kilometers) which brought it up to nearly 105 square miles (272 square kilometers) by Friday with zero containment.
All of Colorado City, an unincorporated community of about 2,200, was ordered evacuated as well as the towns of Beulah, Rye and San Isabel, according to the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office.
About 50 National Guard soldiers were being sent in Friday to help with staffing checkpoints on roads in Custer and Pueblo counties.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Heavy rain and an incoming thunderstorm prompted a delay at halftime of Monday's World Cup match between France and Iraq and sent thousands of fans seeking shelter.
It was the first rain delay of the tournament. There was also heavy rain ahead of Monday night's scheduled game between Norway and Senegal in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
With France leading 1-0 at halftime, scoreboard messages directed the crowd to take shelter in the stadium's covered areas, warning that a severe storm was on the way. Sheets of rain continued to fall through halftime as fans huddled in the concourse and under balconies.
The stoppage was initially expected to extend the 15-minute halftime break by another 15 minutes. As the delay dragged on, stadium officials announced that "the game will resume when deemed safe."
A FIFA rule requires games to be paused and seating areas evacuated for 30 minutes if lightning is detected within 8 miles. Each strike resets the clock.

At least one Italian tourist is dead with several more injured after a massive fire in the Dominican Republic resort town Bayahibe Friday.
The deceased woman, 46-year-old Italian national Francesca Valentino, died at the resort's Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel, according to the Dominican Republic's Directorate of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Services (DAEH).
At least nine other people were treated for injuries, with three of those taken to off-site medical centers, DAEH said in a statement.
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Edinburgh Airport says it is working to resume normal services after the site was evacuated due to reports of potentially suspicious items.
Police said an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team attended after the discovery was made about 18:50 on Friday and the items were "made safe".
The force said the incident is not being treated as suspicious and the evacuation was a precaution.
The airport reopened in the early hours, but it said there would be "knock-on impacts" and long queues built up, extending outside the terminal building, on Saturday morning.
Most flights are scheduled to take off as expected.

Linda Nosková surprised Jessica Pegula to win the Berlin Tennis Open grass event 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 on Sunday following a severe thunderstorm and a big delay.
Lightning, high winds and torrential rain led to the Berlin venue being evacuated before the final, which eventually started five hours late.
Organizers said they were prepared for the forecast weather and took precautionary measures but that "the intensity and speed of the storm made additional actions necessary at very short notice."
The deluged ground took time to drain and infrastructure needed fixing after high winds at the Steffi Graf Stadium. A tunnel leading to a nearby railway station was also flooded.
But Czech eighth seed Nosková initially coped with the chaos better and raced to a 3-0 lead before wrapping up the first set.

The American doctor who contracted Ebola while working on a humanitarian mission in Congo has returned to the United States and said he's feeling well after recovering from the potentially deadly disease.
Dr. Peter Stafford, his wife, Rebekah Stafford, and their four children all arrived safely on Monday, according to Serge, a Pennsylvania-based Christian missions organization. Stafford has been Ebola-free since May 30, the organization said.
"I am filled with gratitude to God for preserving my life, to all those who prayed on my behalf, and to the many medical providers who cared for me," Stafford said in a statement. "I am feeling well and thankful to be reunited with Rebekah and the kids. Our prayers continue for those in Congo who are facing this devastating epidemic and for the ongoing efforts to control the disease."
Other missionaries and their families who were serving in Congo alongside Stafford have also been released from care and monitoring and have returned to the U.S., Serge said.
Stafford was working with the missionary group in Congo when he contracted the virus last month. He was evacuated to a hospital in Berlin to receive care on May 20 and was discharged on June 6, according to Serge. His wife, also a doctor volunteering with the organization, and their four children were also evacuated and quarantined.

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Eastern red cedars surround the Rockefeller Prairie from all sides at the University of Kansas field station north of Lawrence, where researchers have studied the effects of both fire and grazing on grassland ecosystems. (Photo by Erin Socha for Kansas Reflector)
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