fire seasons are 78 days longer today than they were in the 1970s. This year, there have been more than 46,000 fires and since 2000, at least 10 states have had their largest fires on record, the agency said.
camp fire death toll at 86; 3 people still missing share via close extra sharing options multiple fires are raging throughout california, forcing evacuations and leaving a destructive path. the camp fire in northern california’s butte county has killed at lea...
By the end of the day on Monday, at least 15 people had been killed, 1,500 or more structures destroyed, and hundreds injured by flames that moved so quickly one hospital had to evacuate patients using nurses' own cars, rather than wait for ambulances to arrive. The fires show yet aga...
“Every year the fires come, bringing with them the orange and black skies overhead, which feel apocalyptic,” says Goldberg. This sense of impending doom is evident in his photographs. It is as if the color has been stripped from the houses, the cars, and the roads, leaving behind an ...
People sidestepped metal that melted off cars and Jet-Skis and donned masks as they surveyed ravaged neighbourhoods despite an evacuation order for all of Paradise, a town of 27,000 founded in the 1800s. Some cried when they saw nothing was left. ...
The flames were unforgiving to both groups. Hundreds of homes of all sizes were leveled by flames so hot they melted the glass off of cars and turned aluminum wheels into liquid. Former San Francisco Giants pitcher Noah Lowry, who now runs an outdoor sporting goods store in Santa Rosa, was...
As bad as it was in the evacuation madness, Alexandria Wilson, 21, was still at home in her terry slippers, watching the stream of cars on Skyway. Her boyfriend was convinced he could put out the spot fires. Wind gusting at 72 mph blew the flames sideways, propelling them house to hou...
“The grid problems that Californians are enduring will grow and spread as supersized green-energy subsidies and mandates spread their harmful incentives throughput the U.S. economy in coming years. The culprit is the left’s climate policies, not climate change.” ...
In 1858, the year Francisco first appears in the city directory, seven fires ripped through the Barbary Coast, near Sullivan’s Alley, now called Jason Court, which was where he first lived. Sullivan’s Alley was a short walkway between Jackson and Pacific and a notoriously bad street. It...
The Airport fire began unintentionally with a spark from heavy equipment as rocks were being moved in the Trabuco Canyon foothills. Since Monday, it has burned more than 20,000 acres, with 0% containment, while two other major fires burned in San Bernardino County and the Angeles National Fo...