Wildfires

A gigantic aircraft capable of long-range flights with thousands of gallons of fire retardant has joined California’s airborne firefighting fleet.

Four people in Northern California describe what it’s been like to lose their homes to wildfires twice in six years.

Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the nation’s fire-suppression experts and climate change.

Wildfires are continuing to scorch the West and authorities say one major blaze started with a burning car being pushed into a gully.

A wind-driven fire continued to scorch thousands of acres 60 miles east of San Francisco, prompting residents to flee their homes and the closure of two major freeways near the central California city of Tracy.

Fires raging in British Columbia and Alberta have filled the skies with haze over parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin on Sunday, lingering into Monday morning.

Maui’s mayor says he is prioritizing housing, evaluating evacuation routes and hiring more firefighters as his Hawaii community recovers from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.

A fast-moving wildfire burning through the Texas Panhandle grew into the second-largest blaze in state history Wednesday, forcing evacuations and triggering power outages as firefighters struggled to contain the widening flames.

Multiple wind-driven wildfires continued to push through the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday.

As the U.S. tries to restore a key forest ecosystem in the Southeast, landowners must light more fires on private property.

Sydney is blanketed under thick wood smoke for a fourth consecutive day due to hazard reduction burns in preparation for the wildfire season.

The wildfires killed at least 115 people and displaced thousands more.

Maui County has brought a lawsuit against the utility company claiming that it did not shut off its power lines despite the high winds and dry conditions.

Residents in a leafy suburb of the Greek capital have united this summer to prevent deadly wildfires from reaching their homes. They’ve turned to drones.

Within hours of Maui County releasing 388 names of people unaccounted for following the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, some cases were already being resolved Friday as relatives or the people themselves reported they were safe.

The FBI said Wednesday that officials are working to locate approximately 1,100 people who remain missing two weeks after a devastating fire razed Lahaina, Hawaii.

Firefighters in Canada captured video of a fire whirl over Gun Lake, Canada, on Aug. 17 in the Downton Lake fire.

Firefighters scouring the area of a major wildfire in northeastern Greece have found the bodies of 18 people thought to have been migrants who entered the country from Turkey.

Authorities say a second person has died in wildfires in eastern Washington state that have burned hundreds of structures and briefly closed a section of an interstate.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies.