Nihangs or Sikh warriors perform “Gatka”, an ancient form of Sikh martial arts, during an event organised by the Indian Army as part of ”Vijay Diwas” celebrations at the Gobindgarh Fort in Amritsar on December 15, 2024. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





Fire fighters battle a blaze at a home in Spencer, Mass. on December 22, 2024. (Photo by USA Today)





Palestinians try to extinguish a fire broke out on a vehicle as at least 15 Palestinians were killed and over 30 others injured on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on Dar al-Arqam and Shaaban al-Rayes schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, Gaza on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud Isleem/Anadolu Agency)





The traditional burning of the Yule log in front of the St. Sava Temple in Belgrade on Christmas Eve, January 6, 2025. (Photo by R. Z./ATAImages)





This undated handout image received on December 26, 2024 from the State Control Centre of the Victoria Emergency Services shows officials on a road near a bushfire in the Grampians National Park in Australia's Victoria state. (Photo by State Control Centre via AFP Photo)





A Tar Barrel Man walks through the streets of Allendale carrying a flaming barrel in the annual Allendale Tar Barrel festival in Allendale, northern England, on the night between December 31, 2024 and January 1, 2025. The Tar Barrel Festival is a New Year celebration in the Northumberland village of Allendale which dates back to 1858. The festival involves a procession of 45 men carrying burning barrels filled with tar, sawdust, kindling and paraffin on their heads. Shortly before midnight the men return to the village square to light a bonfire by throw on their burning barrels. (Photo by Oli Scarff/AFP Photo)





Civilians leave the site after a Russian ballistic missile hitting the city center on December 20, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Vlada Liberova/Libkos/Getty Images)





A fire accidentally engulfed a huge art installation that featured a portrait of King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh during celebrations for the new year on January 1, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A person dressed as a frightening demonlike Perchten figure performs before a crowd in the town of Trebesing, Austria on December 30, 2023. (Photo by Kurt Kracher/ImageBroker via Getty Images)





A Syrian fighter carries his weapon past a burning house during a raid to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex of former Bashar Assad's military officers and set some apartments on fire at the village of Husseiniyeh, in the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, December 15, 2024. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A folk artist shakes iron nets with hot charcoals to create sparks during Huohu (fire pot) performance on December 28, 2024 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





People watch the annual bonfire at Scheveningen beach in The Hague, Netherlands, 30 December 2024. The wood piles on the beach are traditionally set on fire at the turn of the year, but due to the expected bad weather conditions, the bonfire has been lit a day earlier. (Photo by Lina Selg/EPA/EFE)





Civil Defense members put out a fire in a broadcast van following an Israeli strike that killed five journalists of Al-Quds Al-Youm television channel, according to medics with the Gaza health authorities, in the vicinity of Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat in central Gaza on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Khamis Said/Reuters)





Participants prepare their hot-air balloon during the International Hot-Air Balloon festival in Pokhara on December 24, 2024. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A rescue worker walks by as firefighters work to extinguish a fire near the site of a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 20, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)