Battling 18 Blazes, California May Face Worst Fire Season
Some 14,000 firefighters from Texas and as far away as New Zealand are struggling to curb 18 wildfires in California.
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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.
Crews battled a large fire at a recycling yard in east Denton near 380 and Trinity Road. Firefighters also battled the Texas heat and a water shortage.
Wildfires broke out across North Texas Friday afternoon with the largest being in Wise County.
One person was killed and three others hurt after a car travelling at high speed slammed into a DART bus early this morning in Dallas.
A tiny West Texas community was evacuated when a grass fire threatened an explosives plant.
Authorities have recovered four bodies from the scene of an apartment complex fire in Texas that displaced about 200 people.
A wildfire that killed a California firefighter grew quickly and forced the closure of a key route into Yosemite National Park.
An early morning fire at a chemical plant in Mesquite forced a half-mile evacuation zone and sent workers to the hospital.
Firefighters continued to build containment around several destructive wildfires burning in California, and one stubborn blaze in the northern part of the state crossed the border into Oregon.
A growing wildfire destroyed more than 100 homes in the Colorado mountains, while other blazes across the parched U.S. West meant the evacuation of hundreds from their homes.
Anna Police are warning about the dangers of lighting your own fireworks after it led to a grass fire less than a hundred yards from homes.
Emergency crews continue work in Palo Pinto County where they're trying to get the upper hand on a growing brush fire.
Chopper 11 flew over the scene of a 400-acre brush fire in Palo Pinto County Monday afternoon.
Evacuations were ordered as dry, hot winds fueled a wildfire burning out of control Sunday in rural Northern California, sending a stream of smoke some 75 miles south into the San Francisco area.
Tony and Michelle Weisskopf are Dallas Police detectives who have two children. They will have to buy or build a new house.
Severe drought has already forced officials in several western states to close national parks as precautions against wildfires and issue warnings throughout the region.
Authorities are trying to determine what sparked a barn fire that left about 5,000 pigs dead. The fire started Tuesday afternoon at the Straathoff Swine Farm in Ohio.
The husband of actress Mary McCormack was driving a Tesla Model S in Los Angeles traffic last week when the vehicle caught fire, she tweeted Friday night.
A fast-moving brush fire destroyed eight homes in the Utah tourist town of Moab, while more than 3,000 people in Colorado and Wyoming fled multiple wildfires.
A child was struck by a car in the 400 block of South Oak Street in Crowley and later died at Cook Children's Medical Center.
Extreme fire danger prompted officials to shut down a sprawling forest that includes some of Colorado's most stunning mountains in a region.
A growing wildfire burning in southwestern Colorado forced more people from their homes Sunday as crews tried to slow the blaze being fed by continued hot, dry and windy conditions.
A heroic pit bull in California is being credited with saving a woman and her baby after a fire broke out at their apartment.
A barricaded suspect in one North Dallas neighborhood frightened residents and caused damage to an apartment before being taken into custody.
