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Fire forces evacuation at COP30 site, now controlled
The Morning Standard
|November 21, 2025
A fire erupted in a pavilion of the UN’s climate talks in Brazil on Thursday, forcing panicked delegates to run for the exits and disrupting tense negotiations among ministers from around the world.
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UN and security crews rushed with extinguishers to put out the blaze, which tore a hole in the roof of the COP30 site in Belem as smoke engulfed the corridor and people shouted “fire!”
This story is from the November 21, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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