Claim: A bird that can breathe fire or shoot fire from its eyes caused the Los Angeles wildfires, according to a video. Fact: No such fire-breathing bird exists. The accompanying video is actually the work of a VFX artist who created the clip back in 2020 using CGI and compositing technique. On 23 January 2025, […]
Claim: A video shows a firefighting plane crashing shortly after takeoff while attempting to douse a fire in Los Angeles in January 2025. Fact: The video actually shows a firefighting plane that crashed in January 2024 in Chile. It has no connection to the January 2025 Los Angeles fires. On 11 January 2025, Threads user […]
Claim: A video shows kitchen staff mishandling a fire at Foods Inn, in Karachi resulting in a fire at the restaurant. Fact: The video initially surfaced on social media as early as 2020 and is unrelated to the recent incident at the restaurant in Karachi. A Facebook post (archive) shared CCTV footage claiming to show […]
Claim: Chief of the extremist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad, Masood Azhar, was kiIIed in a bomb expIosion by unknown men, on his way back from a mosque in Bahawalpur. Fact: Old images and videos from a 2021 car bomb blast in Quetta, a 2023 bomb blast in DI Khan and a road accident from 2019 were […]
Claim: A video shows a petrol pump in Lahore being set on fire to protest against fuel hikes in Pakistan. Fact: The video is from June 2020, when a petrol station in Narowal, Punjab, was set on fire by people protesting against the petrol cartel. Fact or Fiction? On 30 January 2023, Twitter user Maj […]
Claim: All records were destroyed in a fire at the Custom Intelligence Office in Quetta. Fact: There was a fire at the customs office in Quetta. However, the incident took place 8 months ago and all records were not destroyed, according to the SSP Quetta’s office and news reports from the time. On 23 December […]
Claim: A video shows a bird breathing fire from its mouth. Fact: The video is the work of Brazilian special effects artist Fabricio Rabachim, who posted it on his YouTube channel in 2020. On 24 August 2022, the Facebook page ‘Amazing World’ shared a video with the claim, “A bird that breathes fire from its […]
#1: Fire tenders with the help of water tankers provided by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board put out the fire by 2am. Fire brigade officials told news organisations that they were called to the scene at approximately 10pm and the fire was extinguished around 2:30am. The Soch Fact Check team visited Teen Hatti to […]