Death Toll Jumps In Historic California Wildfires
The statewide death toll from wildfires in California stands at 31. The Camp Fire that ravaged a swath of Northern California was the deadliest.
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The statewide death toll from wildfires in California stands at 31. The Camp Fire that ravaged a swath of Northern California was the deadliest.
Firefighters from local departments across Texas will help battle wildfires that are ravaging California, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sunday.
The Butte County Sheriff says investigators recovered 14 additional bodies Saturday, three days after the fire broke out.
Massive wildfires are tearing through parts of California, destroying hundreds buildings and forcing thousands of people from their homes.
A wildfire destroyed structures and forced evacuations Monday from the busiest area of Montana's Glacier National Park, as officials in California prepared to reopen Yosemite National Park.
The Vacaville Police Department released video of officers rescuing animals inside the Solano, California SPCA on Saturday as a wildfire raged near the city.
Aircraft turned hillsides red with retardant as homeowners wet their houses with garden hoses in a battle to contain an arson wildfire, which prompted evacuation orders for more than 20,000 people south of Los Angeles.
Some 14,000 firefighters from Texas and as far away as New Zealand are struggling to curb 18 wildfires in California.
On Monday, twin fires being treated as one incident north of San Francisco became the largest wildfire in state history, destroying 443 square miles — nearly the size of the city of Los Angeles.
The blaze in the Redding area, 225 miles north of San Francisco, is the largest of 18 wildfires burning throughout California.
Just a month into the budget year, the state of California has already spent more than one-quarter of its annual fire budget, at least $125 million.
Days after wildfires left a deadly swatch of destruction in Northern California, new blazes exploded to life and threatened more homes.
Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes in Northern California Tuesday.
The same Californians who had to flee from huge wildfires in recent months now have to handle hard rains that bring another type of danger -- mudslides.
Federal officials have launched a two-pronged plan to stop a vicious cycle of rangeland wildfires in a wide swath of sagebrush country in the West.
The color-coded system showing the expected strength of the winds driving the region's fierce wildfires has reached uncharted territory, pushing past red, which means "high" into the color that means "extreme."
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says the U.S. is spending more than $200 million each day on the response to three major hurricanes and huge wildfires.
A carelessly discarded cigarette, a downed power line, a car's backfire or a chainsaw's pull. Just about anything could have started any one of the wildfires now tearing through Northern California.
