Six dead in record breaking rain in New York, California wildfires rage on
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...
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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...
Lightning-sparked fires rage across California, tens of thousands flee
A firefighting helicopter pilot was killed in a crash, and scores of homes burned in California on Wednesday as hundreds of lightning-sparked blazes forced tens of thousands...
Fast-moving fire threatens homes in Santa Barbara County
Flames ripped through brush and woodland on hills above the Californian city of Santa Barbara early on Tuesday, forcing some residents to leave their homes,...
Southern California blaze sears homes, orchards, threatens oil fields
A fast-moving scrub fire threatened orchards, oil fields and homes while displacing thousands of residents in Southern California on Friday, even as diminishing winds helped...
Southern California firefighters brace for resurgence of extreme winds
Firefighters braced late on Tuesday for a resurgence of strong Santa Ana desert winds across Southern California after a day of light breezes helped them...
Los Angeles wildfire rages on, precautionary power outages to be investigated
Wind-whipped flames chased thousands of residents from wealthy Los Angeles neighborhoods and threatened the city’s famed Getty Center museum on Monday, the latest outbreak in...
California fires die down but more power outages expected
Howling winds fuelling wildfires across California began to die down on Friday, but residents in the north of the state braced for another round of power outages...
Rains could hinder search for California wildfire victims
Authorities redoubled efforts to find more victims of the deadliest wildfire in California history and to account for nearly 1,000 people listed as missing, with...
Search on for 1,276 now missing after California’s deadliest wildfire
The number of people missing after California‘s deadliest and most destructive wildfire jumped on Saturday to 1,276, despite authorities locating hundreds of people who scattered when...
California searches for 1,000 missing in its deadliest fire (Updated)
By Terray Sylvester Forensic recovery teams searched for more victims in the charred wreckage of the northern California town of Paradise on Saturday as...
Amid progress against California blaze, number of missing soars
Family members and survivors on Friday sought news of the 630 people considered missing after the deadliest wildfire in California history reduced much of the...