Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state ‘you gotta clean your floors’
The combination of assigning blame while fires still burn and offering questionable remedies have become as familiar to Californians as the conflagrations that ignite each...
Calif. evacuees return home to find devastation
Nikki and Kevin Conant returned to their home in Northern California wine country yesterday to find only its charred remains and burned pieces of the...
Wildfire destroys 29 homes, 31 other structures
A wildfire destroyed 29 homes and 31 other structures in a southeastern Wyoming forest and threatened to remain active for weeks to come, officials said.
Baby Yoda gives Force boost to Western wildfire lines
Beleaguered firefighters in the western United States have a new force on their side: Baby Yoda. A 5-year-old Oregon boy and his grandmother delivered a...
The Energy 202: California’s fires are putting a huge amount of carbon dioxide into the air
California’s unprecedented wildfires, driven by man-made climate change, are pumping the atmosphere with tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide that will only drive...
First Thing: Trump says ‘science doesn’t know’ what’s causing wildfires
For only the second time in recorded history, five tropical cyclones are spinning across the Atlantic at the same time, including Hurricane Sally, which is due to...
COVID-19 complicates California’s record-setting wildfire season
The coronavirus pandemic has severely complicated efforts to fight devastating wildfires raging in California and other parts of the West. The health and economic shutdown...
Oregon officials concerned wildfires could cause widespread death after a million acres burn
Oregon officials say they are preparing for a large number of deaths from this week’s wildfires, with at least five people killed and dozens more...