Los Angeles is in the midst of battling multiple wildfires that have ravaged homes and businesses as they’ve blazed through the Southern California city. A JPMorgan report said Thursday that "expectations of economic losses stemming from the fires have more than doubled since yesterday to closer...
This conspiracy also gained traction after the wildfires in Maui, when a video of Hawaii's governor wasclipped, taken out of context and shared to bolster the false claim the state was aiming to create a "smart city" on scorched land. And similar theories were debunked after wildfires inCana...
Some residents, Kai included, have criticized the local and federal government for failing to warn them of the fires until it was too late, blocking access for people attempting to give aid or leave town, and even withholding relief funding. “There was no warning,” Lynn Robinson told USA ...
“The timing of the fires and how long it is lasting is what is worrying us,” said Ritaumaria Pereira, executive director at Imazon, a nonprofit focused on research and projects in the Amazon region. “Things have gotten out of control, and the name for that is climate change.” ...
A broken power line started thedeadly 2023 Maui firethat destroyed the town of Lahaina, Hawaii.Metal from cars or mowers draggingon the ground can spark fires. California’slargest fire in 2024started when a man pushed a burning car into a ravine near Chico. The fire destroyed more than700...
Much of Hawaii was under a red flag warning for fire risk when the wildfires broke out, but theexact cause of the blazeis still unknown. Some Maui residents who escaped the deadly fires aid they receivedno official warningsas the flames closed in. ...
The poverty rate among survey respondents more than doubled since the August 2023 fires, the University ofHawaiiEconomic Research Organization, or UHERO, said. Incomes dropped by more than half for almost 20% of those who answered questions, the report said. ...
That’s more than half of last year’s total, and forecasters are predicting elevated risk of fires over the coming months in the Great Lakes region, parts of the Midwest, Southwest and in Hawaii. “We’re going to be busy. I couldn’t tell you exactly where right now, but we are ...
Resident Kelsey Trainor said the only road in and out of her neighborhood was completely blocked. Ash fell all around them while fires burned on both sides of the road. “We looked across and the fire had jumped from one side of the road to the other side of the road,” Trainor said....
The total damage from the fires is expected to rise north of $250 billion — making it one of the nation’s costliest disasters. The state’s history of wildfires has already made its electricity more expensive than every other state except Hawaii — a reminder of the high fina...