California skies are shrouded in smoke as the#CampFirecontinues to rage. The fire has been fueled by dry conditions & Santa Ana winds. Our@NASAEarthsatellite captured this image on Nov. 14-actively burning fires are shown as red points.https://t.co/ko4aGNKj5hpic....
Two new fires ignited Monday morning in Southern California, fire officials said. Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said at a press conference that the fires started within minutes of each other. The larger of the two fires, the "Peak Fire," started in Simi Valley south of Sta...
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 le...
There are now 367 wildfires burning in California. In the Bay Area, where fires are burning in every direction from San Francisco, the air quality is currently among the worst in the world. There’s an eerie orange glow in my apartment in Oakland, and ash is falling outside. The smoke ...
Associated PressJan. 14, 2025 Octavia Butler Imagined LA Ravaged by Fires. Her Altadena Cemetery Survived Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, ...
In addition to California, wildfires have ravaged parts of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington in recent months. According to the agriculture department, 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...
Fire scientists are advocating fighting fire with more fires - ones that are purposefully set.BERKELEY, Calif, -- The intensity and rapid spread of the wildfires in California this year is alarming fire scientists. To combat the dangerous trend of escalating wildfires, some of those scientists ...
Effective September 29, 2022, settlement claims received by wildfire victims from the 2015 Butte Fire, 2017 North Bay and Thomas Fires, and 2018 Woolsey and Camp Fires are excluded from California taxable income. Taxpayers who qualify for this exclusion include those that owned, resided in, or ...
National Guard, for example, is using a military grade UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), called the MQ-9 Reaper, at both the Mendocino Complex and Carr fires. The drone captures live video of the blaze from 20,000 feet and can stay in the air for hours, identifying where the fire is ...
“Unfortunately, we’ve seen lots of fires in this community, we’ve seen lots of fires in this county, and we’ve suffered lots of devastation," Anzo said. Dominique Mathes, 37, said he’s had some close calls with wildfires since he has lived in Weed. Though fire dangers are becomin...