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In Northern California, the major Bear Firefilled the skies with smoke and turned them an eerie dark yellow-orange, while the Creek Fire worsened in the Sierra National Forest.Three people were killed in the growing North Complex Fire in Northern California. A 1-year-old boy was killed in t...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters battled two large wildfires Friday that threatened to merge near the most populated part of Oregon, including the suburbs of Portland, and the governor said dozens of people are missing in other parts of the s
000 acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The Carr Fire in Northern California has burned hundreds of homes and is threatening thousands of other structures. The blaze began Monday as a small wildfire and erupted into a living hellscape, CBS News' Carter Evans reported ...
Wildfires ravage Northern California KTVU's Frank Mallicoat provides the latest updates on the Lava Fire, Salt Fire, and Tennant Fire in Northern California.REDDING, Calif. - Firefighters were making progress Friday against Northern California forest fires that burned several homes and forced ...
Authorities in Northern California's Butte County on Thursday were looking for at least 12 people missing in a fire after three people were found dead in connection with the blaze on Wednesday,CBS SF Bay Area reports. The communities of Paradise and Concow, which were devastated by thedevastatin...
Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow that carries moist air from the Pacific. They typically occur during the fall...
We used vegetation data collected in areas before they were burned by the 2500 ha Quartz fire in southern Oregon and the 50 600 ha Big Bar complex in northern California to evaluate the ability of vegetation and topographic characteristics to predict patterns of fire severity. Fire severity was ...
But in Northern California,some 20, 000 residents in Plumas, Butte and Yuba counties were forced to flee the North Complex fires,which exploded in size to 254, 000 acres overnight.Fire officials on that incident and the Creek fire to the south struggled to get an exact footprint of the ...
(AFP) - Some of California's largest-ever fires raged across the state Saturday, forcing tens of thousands from their homes as forecasters warned of further blazes sparked by lightning. Several thousand lightning strikes in recent days ignited fires that left thick smoke blanketing the region...