Health risks along with wildfire danger SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Public health officials are urging residents to stay hydrated, find shade, and take breaks to avoid heat exhaustion as temperatures soar across much of central and northern California. San...
Forest fires are now reaching higher, normally wetter elevations Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced, and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, McGill University (THE CONVERSATION) The Western U.S. appears headed...
The latest in the utility's financial fallout By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric is getting hit with a nearly $150 million bill for neglect that caused Northern California wildfires during the past...
Fire damaged two homes A Santa Barbara man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to setting a wildfire that forced hundreds of people from their homes. Victor Angel Hernandez, 23, is accused of setting a hillside fire last week in Santa Barbara that triggered...
Malibu site can now hold more water MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A water fill-up station in the mountains above Malibu is increasing capacity to handle larger firefighting helicopters that are being contracted to bolster Southern California fleets. The upgrade...
Batson was in Mississippi helping with prescribed fire activities NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A wildland firefighter fell to his death after jumping a fence in Natchez and landing 100 feet below. Natchez Police Department Cmdr. Scott Frye said Evan Batson, 34,...
Severe drought has turned forests and grasslands into dry fuels By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Wearing soot-smudged, fire-resistant clothing and helmets, several wildland firefighters armed with hoes moved through a stand of...
Memorial Weekend service will remember firefighters from 2019 and 2020 National Fallen Firefighters Foundation EMMITSBURG, MD – It is an honor for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) to announce that the 40th Annual National Fallen Firefighters...
Firefighters wipe out blaze that jumped across open water to Voyageurs National Park SUPERIOR, Wis. (May 25, 2021) – Northern Minnesota’s International Falls Fire Department (IFFD), together with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, quickly...
Helicopter crashed during training in Leesburg LEESBURG, Fla. (AP) — A firefighting helicopter with four people on board crashed Tuesday near an airport in central Florida, killing at least one person, officials said. The helicopter crashed into a marsh...
Firefighter injured fighting the Eicks Fire in Hidalgo County SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A wildland firefighter was critically injured while fighting a wildfire on private land in southwestern New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border, state officials said...
Fires so far have burned nearly five times as much acreage as they did last year at this time. By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than...
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