Smoke billows from a house as a fire rages in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa on Thursday. Thousands of Israelis fled their homes on the outskirts of the country's third city Haifa with others trapped inside as firefighters struggled to control raging bushfires, officials said. Flames blaze in the woods as a wildfire rages in the northern city of Haifa. ( BAZ RATNER/reuters )Residents of eight neighbourhoods in the northern city of Haifa were told to evacuate their homes on Thursday afternoon, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Fires later erupted elsewhere near Jerusalem and in the northern Israeli area of Zichron Yaakov.

Source: thestar November 24, 2016 17:09 UTC