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The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency late on Wednesday as record-breaking rains from tropical storm Ida led to...
Residents, tourists scramble to evacuate as California fire nears Lake Tahoe
Residents and tourists in communities near Lake Tahoe fled on Monday as a fierce, 2-week-old wildfire roared closer to the popular resort destination through drought-parched...
Arid conditions flame growing California wildfires
An incendiary mix of strong, shifting winds and drought-parched vegetation stoked two of California’s largest wildfires on Wednesday, with thousands of people chased from their...
California wildfire forces 25,000 people to flee
Firefighters battled to tame a wildfire on hillsides southeast of Los Angeles late on Thursday, some 24 hours after it broke out in a wooded...
Arson probe opened into deadly Oregon wildfire
Arson investigators have opened a probe into the suspicious origins of a deadly Oregon wildfire that began in the town of Ashland and destroyed hundreds of homes...
Oregon wildfires destroy five towns, as three fatalities confirmed in California
An unprecedented spate of fierce, wind-driven wildfires in Oregon have all but destroyed five small towns, leaving a potentially high death toll in their wake,...
Wildfires rage in California, stoked by extreme heat in U.S. West
Three large wildfires burned in California and a fourth was growing quickly on Monday as a weekend heat wave lingered across large swaths of the...
‘Fire on all sides’: California wildfires prompt evacuations
More than 200 people were airlifted to safety overnight after a fast-moving wildfire cut off the only road out of the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a...
Fire-ravaged northern California largely spared new onslaught of lightning
Thunderstorms rumbled over northern California again on Monday, but the fire-ravaged region around San Francisco Bay was largely spared from a new onslaught of incendiary...
Evacuees brave heat, pandemic to flee California’s lightning-caused firestorms
Tens of thousands of displaced Californians huddled under evacuation orders in the midst of a heat wave and a pandemic late on Thursday as lightning-sparked firestorms...