Last week my location was blanketed by smoke from forest fires in northern Quebec, with the air quality index pegged as high as it goes (which is to say, eleven). The iPhone’s default weather app has an air quality map that I made use of—you could actually see the fire hotspots—...
Firefighters are battling multiple wildfires across California, as seen on this map from Tuesday, June 18, 2024.CalFire Windy conditions and an overall dip in humidity over parts of California combined to create the arid and blustery conditions that allow fires to rapidly spread, the National Weat...
Wildfire season may be almost over in Northern California, but the risk remains high in... By Julie Johnson ‘Life-threatening flash flooding’ warned near Park Fire burn scar A flash flood warning was issued for the Tehama County division of the Park Fire burn scar... By Anthony Edwards ...
A registered nurse was one of several hospital staff members in Northern California who helped evacuate patients as the "Camp Fire" closed in, CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal reports.Darrell Wilkenand his patients fled the raging flames in Paradise, which was nearly wiped out. "I...
Wildfires raged across Northern California and southern Oregon in August. But thanks to a new map application, two local utilities were able to monitor and protect more than 16,000 miles of transmission lines that serve nearly two million customers.Esri...
Wildfires in 2020 ravaged California to set the annual record of area burned to date. Clusters of wildfires in Northern California surrounded the Bay Area covering the skies with smoke and raising the air pollutant concentrations to hazardous levels. This study uses the Fire Inventory from the Nati...
The Camp Fire in Northern California is the largest of the three, and if it was placed on top of Wichita Falls, it would cover the entire city and then some. As of Tuesday, the Camp Fire stretched across 201 square miles, that's 2.9 times the size of Wichita Falls' 70 square miles...
Northern California crews respond to help with fast-moving Mountain Fire in Southern California Forest Service to hold Women in Wildfire training camp in Northern California Dutch Fire forward progress stopped after prompting evacuations in Placer, Nevada counties UC Davis finds connection between wi...
California wildfire map A map shows where two major fires are burning in California.CBS The "Camp Fire" in Northern California is raging north of the state capital of Sacramento, and the "Woolsey Fire" is burning outside Los Angeles.
"This is also very overwhelming for the fire departments, especially in rapidly developing fires like the one in Paradise," said Fu, referring to the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California, which killed 85 people. The team evaluated the effectiveness of their mapping tool by running a si...