“As evidenced by the (Park) fire to the West, some of these fires are just absolutely exploding and burning at rates of spread that it is just hard to even imagine,” Tim Hike, Forest Service incident commander of the Gold Complex fire about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Reno, said ...
Cooking is the number one cause of home fires and home injuries. You should not use the stove or stovetop if you are tired or have consumed alcohol. Keep anything that can catch fire – oven mitts, wooden utensils, food packaging, towels or curtains – away from the stove top. Stay in ...
“If we see fires behave like this in July, they may behave even more radically come the fall when the fields are even drier.” A helicopter buckets water onto smoldering fires outside of Jasper, Alberta, Canada, on Friday. Wildfires encroaching into the townsite of Jasper forced an ...