French firefighters (C) operate on a fire during a demonstration near Place de la Concorde after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49,3 of the constitution, in Paris on March 16, 2023. The French president on March 16 rammed a controversial pension reform through parliament without a vote, deploying a rarely used constitutional power that risks inflaming protests. The move was an admission that his government lacked a majority in the National Assembly to pass the legislation to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. (Photo by Thomas Samson/AFP Photo)





A man shakes a wooden disk to keep it on fire during the Schieweschlawe festival in Offwiller, eastern France, Sunday, February 26, 2023. The Schieweschlawe festival is a celtic tradition to drive away evil spirit and celebrates equinox. (Photo by Jean-Francois Badias/AP Photo)





Young men and women with faces painted wear white sheets and hold torches on long poles, take part at the Torch Parade (Lampadiforia) on the Aegean Sea island of Naxos, Greece, late Saturday, February 25, 2023. The first proper celebration of the Carnival after four years of COVID restrictions, has attracted throngs of revellers, Greek and foreign, with the young especially showing up in large numbers. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





South Koreans carry torches as they march on the street during a re-enactment of the March First Independence Movement against Japanese during the 104th Independence Movement Day ceremony on February 28, 2023 in Cheonan, South Korea.South Koreans celebrate the public holiday marking the 1919 civilian uprising against Japanese rule, which colonized the Korean peninsula from 1910-1945. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)





A child spins ring of fire during rituals in celebration of Sirni Zagovezni, the second Sunday before Great Lent, in Lozen, Bulgaria on February 26, 2023. (Photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)





The “Wall of Fire” pyrotechnics display concludes the first public day of the Australian International Airshow Aerospace and Defence Expo at Avalon Airport in Geelong on March 3, 2023. (Photo by Paul Crock/AFP Photo)





An aerial photo taken from a helicopter shows old dry grass of Mt. Omuro being burned on the Izu Peninsula in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture on February 26, 2023. The annual event aims to accelerate new grass growth. Visitors enjoyed the 15-minute spectacle. (Photo by Toshikazu Sato/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP Photo)





People dance around an effigy of Lady Winter during Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) holiday celebrations in Tonezh village in the Gomel Region, Belarus, Sunday, February 26, 2023. Maslenitsa is an Orthodox Christian holiday celebrated in the last week before the Orthodox Lent. The festivities feature baking traditional pancakes, sleigh rides, sparring between groups of men and, finally burning the effigy of Maslenitsa. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man with a stick in hand walks past a burning police car not far from the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, March 9, 2023. Police in Georgia's capital have fired water cannon and tear-gas to disperse demonstrators around the parliament building protesting a draft law aimed at curbing the influence of “foreign agents”, among fears it could be used to silence oppositions. (Photo by Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo)





Firefighters with the Dudley Volunteer Fire Department work the scene of a large-scale fire at the National Salvage and Service Corp. industrial site on Old Mt. Olive Highway Saturday, February 11, 2023 in Wayne County, N.C. The Wayne County sheriff’s office says no injuries have been reported, and no evacuations have taken place in the area. (Photo by Aviel Smolka/The Goldsboro News-Argus via AP Photo)





A police officer takes a selfie photograph in front of illegally harvested sandalwood confiscated by Kenya's multiagency security teams set ablaze to curb the trade in their essential oil, which is extracted to manufacture medicines and cosmetics at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices along Kiambu road in Nairobi, Kenya on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Monicah Mwangi/Reuters)





People jump cross the bonfire on February 28, 2023 in Jieyang,Guangdong Province of China.The citizens held a fire jumping activity to pray for the elimination of bad luck. (Photo by John Ricky/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Volunteer Uzbek chef prepares Uzbek pilaf for earthquake survivors in Iskendurun, Kirikhan, Antakya districts of Turkiye after 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes hit multiple provinces of Turkiye on March 09, 2023. (Photo by Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Svitlana Gynzhul carries broken branches towards a fire in her hometown, that was located between front lines and devastated by shelling in the beginning of the war, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Luch, Mykolaiv region, Ukraine on February 24, 2023. (Photo by Lisi Niesner/Reuters)





A Ukrainian serviceman stands near a fire lit with gun powder to get warm near the city of Bakhmut in the region of Donbas on March 5, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Aris Messinis/AFP Photo)